1. Open Source Software and the Organization of Work
Giampaolo Garzarelli
Università degli Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza”

2. What is (not) OSS organization?
Not a factory.
Not a firm.
Not a market.
Not for profit.
No ownership structure.

3. Organizational Alternatives (After Langlois 1999)
Work force concentrated
Work force dispersed
Process supervision
Factory system —
Product monitoring
Inside contracting
Putting out and OSS organization of work?
But... Putting out sees competition among workers. OSS sees cooperation among workers.

4. Then... Why is such organization possible?
Why can it persist through time?
Is there nonetheless a theoretical – or even historical – organizational ideal-type whose characteristics it does more-or-less resemble, e.g., the putting-out?
One Key?
Sharing of input and output (nonrival intangibles).