Designing Open Source Efficiently - A Comparative Organizational Analysis

mode of production exist that is based on the contributions of many software programmerswithout providing any direct monetary incentives for them? And how can these programmerscoordinate their actions without relying on either the guidance of the price mechanism or thedirection through a superior? This paper provides answers to such questions by investigatingthe entire system of open source, taking into account various parameters of organizationaldesign. It is argued that open source relies on the existence and careful synthesis of severalorganizational elements into a consistent system.[...]