Can collaboration engineering help open source communities to structure their activities ?

Matthieu Lettry (1) , Imed Boughzala (2) , Aurélie Dudézert (1)

1 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606
2 IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information

Collaborative work became an important stake for productivity, performance and innovation for companies. They bet more and more on communities of practice to support collaboration, sharing and creation of knowledge. The goal of this paper is to analyze the possible contribution of the Collaboration Engineering in the working of these communities, by taking as example, the Open Source communities.

Mots clés: Knowledge Management; Collaboration engineering; Open source; Virtual community

Domaines: Gestion et management

Matthieu Lettry, Imed Boughzala, Aurélie Dudézert. Can collaboration engineering help open source communities to structure their activities ?. AIM 2007 : 12ème Conférence de l'Association Information et Management, Jun 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland. ⟨halshs-00158137⟩