What Leaders Really Do for Open Collaborations: Focusing on Open Source Software Development Projects

Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019S1A3A2099973), and the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2020-0-01749-001) supervised by the IITP (Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation)

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