Commons are holistic social institutions to govern the (re)production of resources, articulated through interrelated legal, socio-cultural, economic and institutional dimensions. They represent a comprehensive and radical approach to organise collective action, placing it "beyond market and...

Unsere heutige Wirtschaft ist noch überwiegend durch Konkurrenzdenken geprägt. Das Buch ... zeigt eine andere Zukunft: Je mehr "Wir-Orientierung“ Unternehmen an den Tag legen, desto intelligenter, kreativer, nachhaltiger und erfolgreicher werden sie. Open Source, Wikipedia, Social...

This paper deals with the relationships between firms and communities in Open Source Software (OSS). A particular feature of OSS is that important resources are not directly controlled by firms, but partly reside within communities that co-exist with the firms. Despite this, firms explicitly try...

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers' motivations and tries to isolate mechanisms sustaining developers' contribution over time. The first part of the paper uses data gathered by the empirical studies relative to the...