By employing modularity theory, we study the general phenomenon of open-source collaboration, which includes, e.g., collective invention and open science besides open-source software production. We focus on how open-source collaboration coordinates the division of labor. We find that open-source...

The recent article in Capitalism and Society by Dosi et al., as well as the accompanying discussion by William Lazonick, misunderstand and mischaracterize the argument of my 2003 paper The Vanishing Hand. More importantly, some of the central claims these articles make about the organization of...