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11-12-2016 12:00 AM

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Open source software is central to the argument of inclusion of community-based production as a new form of organizing for growth and innovation. However, whether the same can be applied by embedding the market-based production in the solidarity and social-trust based systems remains theoretically unclear and largely unexplored empirically. Building on prior research on governing the commons, we revise the theoretical framing of exclusion and subtractability to underline their inverse and reciprocal relationship. We examine the genealogy of community-based production from communities to markets and further use two contemporary cases to illustrate 1) how exclusion leads to underuse and underinvestment from the business investor’s perspective, 2) how subractability facilitates business investment without crowding out nonprofit contributors, and 3) how actors self-organize to address the social and business dilemma, ensuring that both community and market-based production can more effectively adapt, innovate and survive in the long term.

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Dec 11th, 12:00 AM

Governing the Commons from Communities to Markets

Open source software is central to the argument of inclusion of community-based production as a new form of organizing for growth and innovation. However, whether the same can be applied by embedding the market-based production in the solidarity and social-trust based systems remains theoretically unclear and largely unexplored empirically. Building on prior research on governing the commons, we revise the theoretical framing of exclusion and subtractability to underline their inverse and reciprocal relationship. We examine the genealogy of community-based production from communities to markets and further use two contemporary cases to illustrate 1) how exclusion leads to underuse and underinvestment from the business investor’s perspective, 2) how subractability facilitates business investment without crowding out nonprofit contributors, and 3) how actors self-organize to address the social and business dilemma, ensuring that both community and market-based production can more effectively adapt, innovate and survive in the long term.