Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This work shows that the modular organization of voluntary open source software (OSS) production, whereby programmers supply effort of their accord, capitalizes more on division than on specialization of labor. This is so because voluntary OSS production is characterized by an organizational learning process that dominates the individual one. Organizational learning reveals production choices that would otherwise remain unknown, thereby increasing productivity and indirectly reinforcing incentives to undertake collective problem solving.
Authors: GIAMPAOLO GARZARELLI, RICCARDO FONTANELLA
Institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, Sapienza University of Rome
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2143830600