The 'autocratic-mechanistic' structure in Open Source Software (OSS) communities, as defined in 'Governance of open source software: state of the art,' occurs when communities originate as autocratic ventures and, upon growing larger, move toward high degrees of vertical differentiation, vertical centralization, and formalization to maintain control.

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  Governance of open source software: state of the art - Springer Nature

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• open source software communities concept