%0 Journal Article %1 LangloisGarzarelli:2008 %A Langlois, Richard N %A Garzarelli, Giampaolo %D 2008 %J Industry and Innovation %K behavior business cellstructure economic firm innovation management modularity open-source organization software structure theory %N 2 %P 125--143 %T Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-Source Collaboration %V 15 %X Using the idea of modularity, we study the general phenomenon of open-source collaboration, which includes such things as collective invention and open science in addition to open-source software production. We argue that open-source collaboration coordinates the division of labor through the exchange of effort rather than of products: suppliers of effort self-identify in the same way as suppliers of products in a market rather than accepting assignments like employees in a firm. We suggest that open-source software (and other) projects are neither bazaars nor cathedrals, but hybrids manifesting both voluntary production and conscious planning.

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