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| Title: | Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux |
| Authors: | Garzarelli, Giampaolo
Galoppini, Roberto |
| Keywords: | Modularity, hierarchy, capabilities, coordination costs, cost |
| 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. |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2038/941 |
| bibliographicCitation: | Università degli Studi di Roma, ACME Solutions |
| Appears in Collections: | Essays on OSS
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