During the last decades, the ICT industry imposed new tendencies concerning the communization of software platforms and solutions; thus a continuously growing phenomenon has been developed, namely that of open source software. In the present context, when companies have to manage large databases...

Social capital is a contested concept, embraced by the mainstream as “the missing link” in economic analysis. This article suggests a way to turn it into a more meaningful understanding of how social relations matter in the economy. It will do so by unpacking the concept into various...