Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and "The Nature of the Firm"

For decades our common understanding of the organization of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, or as individuals in markets, following price signals. This dichotomy wa...

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Published in:The Yale law journal 2002-12, Vol.112 (3), p.369-446
Main Author: Benkler, Yochai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advantages
Business models
Capital costs
Collaboration
Commercial production
Committees
Common lands
Computer software
Cooperation
Economic behaviour
Economic theory
Firm theory
Free software
Freeware
Human capital
Imperative sentences
Information
Information production
Information resources
Innovation
Institutionalism
Internet
Linux
Markets
Modes of production
Neue Institutionenökonomik
Open Source
Open source software
Organization theory
Peers
Prices
Production
Production cooperatives
Resource ownership
Ronald H. Coase
Socioeconomic factors
Software
Software industry
Theorie
Theorie der Unternehmung
Transaction costs
U.S.A
Volunteerism
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