Abstract (eng)
The scope of the present thesis is the identification of suitable analysis methods for cooperation in the library sector in order to enable a comprehensive and generally applicable evaluation of such cooperation. This approach aims to address the specific research question concerning the strengthening of cooperation within the Austrian Koha Community. To achieve this, social science cooperation research, particularly drawing from game theory and its most popular model, the Prisoner's Dilemma, was examined for appropriate analysis methods. As a result, the connection to the research on common-pool resources by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis an der Indiana University proved to be a particularly suitable but surprisingly underexplored research field. For this reason, this work can be perceived, as an exploratory study that illustrates the analysis and development methods of common-pool resource research (Design Principles of the Commons, The Grammar of Institutions, Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, Social-Ecological Systems Framework) in the context of the information and library sector. Special consideration is given to open-source software development in this domain, as reflected in the case study of the Austrian Koha Community. The analysis of the situation of Koha in Austria is carried out through the application of the Social-Ecological Systems Framework, using the results of a survey conducted among Koha users and interested institutions as an example. The findings gained from this serves the further development of the Austrian Koha community and as a practical example of the analysis methods presented.