Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List

In light of the impressive innovation capabilities of Open Source Software (OSS) development communities, I propose that OSS-development communities innovate in temporally emergent, sequential and transient microstructures of development. To be specific, exploration and exploitation by means of cont...

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Main Author: Ali, Aminul Islam
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21684/
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description In light of the impressive innovation capabilities of Open Source Software (OSS) development communities, I propose that OSS-development communities innovate in temporally emergent, sequential and transient microstructures of development. To be specific, exploration and exploitation by means of continuous redesign occurs in brokerage and closure microstructures of development at the triadic-level. At the same time, the concepts of exploration and exploitation are redefined from the current contextualisation in learning and boundaries of learning to a context of knowledge sharing with which boundaries of space are replaced by boundaries of social-characteristics. I propose that exploration and exploitation are continuous in OSS-development for which there is the solution of punctuated-equilibrium to sustain a balance between the two through temporal sequences dependant on the context of the development activity. Furthermore, I propose that tasks of variation creation, selection and retention occurs in the microstructures of development and in which variation creation continues to manifest throughout the knowledge creation cycle. And all of which are validated using 139 discussion threads from the K-Desktop Environment (KDE) developer mailing list. The findings indicate that microstructures of development sustain cycles of exploration and exploitation, but in a temporal sequence through temporal cycling dependant on the context of the development activity, and lead to complete knowledge creation cycles in doing so.
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spelling nottingham-216842018-02-02T21:21:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21684/ Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List Ali, Aminul Islam In light of the impressive innovation capabilities of Open Source Software (OSS) development communities, I propose that OSS-development communities innovate in temporally emergent, sequential and transient microstructures of development. To be specific, exploration and exploitation by means of continuous redesign occurs in brokerage and closure microstructures of development at the triadic-level. At the same time, the concepts of exploration and exploitation are redefined from the current contextualisation in learning and boundaries of learning to a context of knowledge sharing with which boundaries of space are replaced by boundaries of social-characteristics. I propose that exploration and exploitation are continuous in OSS-development for which there is the solution of punctuated-equilibrium to sustain a balance between the two through temporal sequences dependant on the context of the development activity. Furthermore, I propose that tasks of variation creation, selection and retention occurs in the microstructures of development and in which variation creation continues to manifest throughout the knowledge creation cycle. And all of which are validated using 139 discussion threads from the K-Desktop Environment (KDE) developer mailing list. The findings indicate that microstructures of development sustain cycles of exploration and exploitation, but in a temporal sequence through temporal cycling dependant on the context of the development activity, and lead to complete knowledge creation cycles in doing so. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21684/1/Dissertation.pdf Ali, Aminul Islam (2007) Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Microstructures; Brokerage; Closure; Exploration; Exploitation; Punctuated-Equilibrium; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Creation.
spellingShingle Microstructures; Brokerage; Closure; Exploration; Exploitation; Punctuated-Equilibrium; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Creation.
Ali, Aminul Islam
Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title_full Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title_fullStr Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title_full_unstemmed Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title_short Microstructures of Development in the KDE-Electronic Mailing List
title_sort microstructures of development in the kde-electronic mailing list
topic Microstructures; Brokerage; Closure; Exploration; Exploitation; Punctuated-Equilibrium; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Creation.
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21684/