Advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics have notably expanded employers' monitoring and surveillance capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers about the productivity and broader welfare...

Advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics have notably expanded employers’ monitoring and surveillance capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers about the productivity and broader welfare...

This paper presents a model on the viability and persistence of open and closed-source productions in the software industry. Starting from some empirical evidence on the degree of organizational diversity that characterizes this sector of the economy, the paper asks one main question: why do...