Stigmergy in ACM Ubiquity

Submitted by crowston on Sun, 2015-10-18 20:38

My work with James Howison and Francesco Bolici on stigmergy in software development was picked up by ACM Ubiquity:

Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence published!

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2015-09-11 10:58

The Springer has been published including an article by me on and another on

Open Source Technology Development

Crowston, K. (2015). Open Source Technology Development. In W. S. Bainbridge & Roco, M. C. (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_29-1

Editorial: The role of information systems in enabling open innovation

Whelan, E., Conboy, K., Crowston, K., Morgan, L., & Rossi, M.. (2014). Editorial: The role of information systems in enabling open innovation. Journal Of The Association For Information Systems , 15(11). https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00381

Group maintenance in technology-supported distributed teams

Wei, K., Crowston, K., Li, N., & Heckman, R.. (2014). Group maintenance in technology-supported distributed teams. Information & Management, 51(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.02.001

Peer Production, Collective Intelligence, and Open Communities: Issues for Researchers and Educators

Submitted by crowston on Tue, 2013-06-25 12:54

I recently took part in a webinar on "Peer Production, Collective Intelligence, and Open Communities: Issues for Researchers and Educators". The recording is posted here:

Open Source Software Adoption: A Technological Innovation Perspective

Special issue on Open Source Sustainability

Submitted by crowston on Thu, 2013-01-17 10:06

The January 2013 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review is on the theme Open Source Sustainability. It's available . Nicolas Julien, Felipe Ortega and I have a in the issue on sustainability of Wikipedia.

Sustainability of Open Collaborative Communities: Analyzing Recruitment Efficiency

Boundary-Spanning Documents in Online FLOSS Communities: Does One Size Fit All?

Østerlund, C., & Crowston, K.. (2013). Boundary-Spanning Documents in Online FLOSS Communities: Does One Size Fit All?. In Forty-sixth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-46).

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