By employing modularity theory, we study the general phenomenon of open-source collaboration, which includes, e.g., collective invention and open science besides open-source software production. We focus on how open-source collaboration coordinates the division of labor. We find that open-source collaboration is an organizational form based on the exchange of effort rather than of products where suppliers of effort self-identify like suppliers of products in a market rather than accepting assignments like employees in a firm. Our finding suggests that actual open-source software (and other) projects are neither bazaars nor cathedrals, but hybrids manifesting both voluntary production and conscious planning.
Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration / R. N., Langlois; Garzarelli, Giampaolo. - ELETTRONICO. - Working papers 2008-53, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics(2008), pp. 1-40.
Titolo: | Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2008 | |
Citazione: | Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration / R. N., Langlois; Garzarelli, Giampaolo. - ELETTRONICO. - Working papers 2008-53, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics(2008), pp. 1-40. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/500467 | |
Appartiene alla tipologia: | 13a Altro ministeriale |
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