Thursday 16th February
Speaker: Ofer Arazy | website
Theme: Engagement, motivations and incentives
“Whats in it for the dude?” – picture from the Big Lebowski Film
Rational economics has been used to analyses open source development but he want to move beyond the lens of rational economics
he uses the theory of “participation in social movements” Klandermans (1997) and Maslow hierarchy of needs:
collective motives
identification motives
cost benefit motives
norm orientated motives
His argument that there doesn’t need to be a tradeoff between quality and quantity they can both go up.
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