Their findings mirror the critical success factors of any project: internal team cohesion is directly correlated to success, moderate camaraderie among external stakeholders is important to success, and that moderate amount of skill-set diversity among team-members should be pursued.
The really good news coming out of this is that the factors are ...
Predictable
Controllable and
Sustainable
A good team lead can guide their group to a place of reasonable cohesion, though shared vision, motivation and objectives. They can bring together external stakeholders in a systematic way, tuning their cohesion to the ideal state. And finally, they can assemble a moderately diverse set of skills on their team, allowing the variety of perspectives to challenge firmly held - but ineffective - ideas and methodologies.
Credit where credit is due: Network Effects: The Influence of Structural Social Capital on Open Source Project Success by Param Vir Singh, Vijay Mookerjee and Yong Tan
That's interesting. As for more explanation on critical success factors, I recently read this article: http://www.coursework4you.co.uk/critical_sucess_factors_csf.htm.
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