Agent of Two Principals: Conflicts and Spillovers Between Business Organization and Open Source Project Roles

Stefan Koch; Secil Bayraktar; Yasin Rofcanin

doi:10.1080/10580530.2025.2477457

Agent of Two Principals: Conflicts and Spillovers Between Business Organization and Open Source Project Roles

Stefan Koch, Secil Bayraktar, Yasin Rofcanin

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Abstract

While collaborations with open-source projects have become a strategic tool, there needs to be more focus on the resulting role conflict and the impact that mechanisms to cope with it have on the individual. We study the role of company regulations as a moderator of the relationship between organizational climate and member satisfaction. Results show that principal-agent theory can provide a lens to examine these situations and that spillover effects exist.

Original language	English
Journal	Information Systems Management
Early online date	21 Mar 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2025.2477457
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 21 Mar 2025

Data Availability Statement

The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on request.

Funding

This research has been supported by the Bogazici University Research Fund under Grant No. [BAP 7701].

Keywords

agency theory
Open-source software
organizational climate
role conflict

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences

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