Stewart, Ammeter and Maruping 2006: Impacts of License Choice and Organizational Sponsorship on User Interest and Development Activity in Open Source Software Projects

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Stewart and Gosain 2006: The impact of ideology on effectiveness in open source software development teams

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Structured abstracts

I want to summarize some articles I've read as structured abstracts. I will cover the following points:

• Rationale: Practical and theoretical background of the study, including its relevance.
• Objectives: What does the study attempt to accomplish?
• Theoretical background: Theoretical frameworks or perspectives (whether theory building or theory testing) used to accomplish the objectives.
• Key questions: What are the specific research questions addressed? This includes listing the hypotheses tested, if applicable.
• Methodology: Methodological approaches used to answer the questions.
• Variables and data sources, if any: The dependent and independent variables, including control variables; for empirical studies, some key characteristics of the data sources (brief description, sociocultural/organizational context, sample size, quantitative/qualitative, etc.)
• Key findings: Summary of objective results of methodology (other than interpretation).
• Key contribution to knowledge: Most important and novel contributions.
• Key implications: Implications for practice and for future research.
• Comments: Any comments, including why this is considered high-quality research.