paper: Capability Coordination in Modular Organization
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PAPER 2
Authors:
Garzarelli, Giampaolo & Roberto Galoppini
Title:
Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS
Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/garzarelligaloppini.pdf
Abstract:
The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS)
organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian
GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process
is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable)
architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But
voluntary FS/OSS project organization is not hierarchical for the same
reasons suggested by the most familiar theories of economic
organization: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous
change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is
ultimately the overhead attached to the benefits engendered by modular
organization.
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