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Doing Things Together: Some Basic Forms of Agency and Structure in Collective Action and Some Explanations
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In this article, a review of studies of the growth and continuous regeneration of groups suggest answers to recent questions about the relations between agency and structure, within a framework built on G.H. Mead's social behaviorism and on research concerning organizational growth and collective behavior.Abstract:
Studies of the growth and continuous regeneration of groups suggest answers to recent questions about the relations between agency and structure. Several of these studies are reviewed within a framework built on G.H. Mead's social behaviorism and on research concerning organizational growth and collective behavior. The explanations based on this framework are contrasted with alternative approachesread more
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Open Source Software and the 'Private-Collective' Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science
Eric von Hippel,Georg von Krogh +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that open source software development is an exemplar of a compound "private-collective" model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the collective action models and can offer society the "best of both worlds" under many conditions.
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Open Source Software and the Private-Collective Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science
Eric von Hippel,Georg von Krogh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that open source software development is an exemplar of a compound "private-collective" model of innovation that contains elements of both the private investment and the collective action models and can offer society the best of both worlds under many conditions.
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Time, Self, and the Curiously Abstract Concept of Agency*
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The Role of Values in Rational Choice Theory
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