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Psychological And Agentic Effects Of Human-Bot Delegation In Open-Source Software Development (Ossd) Communities: An Empirical Investigation Of Information Systems Delegation Framework, Spurthy Dharanikota
Psychological And Agentic Effects Of Human-Bot Delegation In Open-Source Software Development (Ossd) Communities: An Empirical Investigation Of Information Systems Delegation Framework, Spurthy Dharanikota
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Bots are agentic AI that automatically interact with software developers, also known as contributors, to coordinate work in open-source software development (OSSD). The proliferation of bots in OSSD communities like Kubernetes led them to become the disruptive new teammates central to the coordinating mechanisms for implementing source code changes using pull requests. These bots provide procedural rationality and enhance predictability in OSSD communities akin to clerks and managers in traditional organizations. However, despite acknowledging the criticality of the bots’ agentic role in coordinating the OSSD, research on the OSSD dynamics in the Information Systems literature has failed to reveal …