论文标题
关注领导者：开源软件中的技术和鼓舞人心的领导
Follow the Leader: Technical and Inspirational Leadership in Open Source Software
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论文摘要
我们对预测开源软件（OSS）虚拟团队中领导者出现的行为因素进行了首次全面研究。我们利用开发人员与他们与队友和项目的互动的完整历史在2010年1月至2017年4月之间（代表约1.33亿互动）来确定 - 与形容开源的常见叙述相反，将开源的叙述描述为纯粹的“技术绩效” - 开发人员的沟通能力和社区建筑技能是他们是否成为团队领导者的重要预测者。因此，即使在像OSS这样的环境中，励志交流也似乎是领导者出现在虚拟团队中的核心。这些结果应该引起研究人员和从业人员的理论，尤其是对OSS的理论，更普遍地是在地理上分散的虚拟团队以及在线社区经理中的领导力。
We conduct the first comprehensive study of the behavioral factors which predict leader emergence within open source software (OSS) virtual teams. We leverage the full history of developers' interactions with their teammates and projects at github.com between January 2010 and April 2017 (representing about 133 million interactions) to establish that - contrary to a common narrative describing open source as a pure "technical meritocracy" - developers' communication abilities and community building skills are significant predictors of whether they emerge as team leaders. Inspirational communication therefore appears as central to the process of leader emergence in virtual teams, even in a setting like OSS, where technical contributions have often been conceptualized as the sole pathway to gaining community recognition. Those results should be of interest to researchers and practitioners theorizing about OSS in particular and, more generally, leadership in geographically dispersed virtual teams, as well as to online community managers.
