What Makes A Virtual Organization Work : Lessons From The Open-Source World  

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Manville, Brook ; Markus, M. Lynne ; Agres, Carole E.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sloan: Management Review vol. 42 no. 1 (2000), page 13-26.
Topik: virtual community; virtual organization; work; open - source; world

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Today's workforce is increasingly made up of volunteers - at least in spirit if not in fact. How will the traditional management tasks of motivating and directing employees change in the face of that new reality ? The authors answer this question by examining an example of an economic enterprise that acts in many ways like a voluntary organization : the open - source software movement. The authors became interested in the movement during the course of their work with a knowledge - based organization that was seeking a new model of organizational governance. After hearing open - source proponent Eric Raymond speak at a public forum, they began to think that the movement might offer just the model the organization needed. They then embarked on a case study that focused on the motivation of open - source participants and the coordination of their software development work. The authors posed the following essential questions : What motivates people to participate in open - source projects ? And how is participation governed in the absence of employment or fee - for - service contracts ? The answers revealed some important lessons for traditional organizations about the challenges of keeping and motivating knowledge workers and the process of managing in the new arena of networked or virtual organizations.

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