TY - JOUR
T1 - Building Governance Capability in Online Social Production
T2 - Insights from Wikipedia
AU - Aaltonen, Aleksi
AU - Lanzara, Giovan Francesco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - This article investigates a form of governance that makes online social production possible. Drawing on the concepts of capability and routine, we develop a dynamic, process-oriented view that departs from past research focused on static comparative analysis. We theorize that online social production systems develop a collective governance capability to steer the process of integrating distributed knowledge resources to the production of value. Governance mechanisms emerge from individual and collective learning that is made possible by new technology, and they evolve over time, as routines are developed to respond to new problems faced by a growing production system. Using Wikipedia as a paradigmatic example of online social production, we characterize governance as an evolving, enabling and embedded process and discuss implications for a dynamic theory of governance.
AB - This article investigates a form of governance that makes online social production possible. Drawing on the concepts of capability and routine, we develop a dynamic, process-oriented view that departs from past research focused on static comparative analysis. We theorize that online social production systems develop a collective governance capability to steer the process of integrating distributed knowledge resources to the production of value. Governance mechanisms emerge from individual and collective learning that is made possible by new technology, and they evolve over time, as routines are developed to respond to new problems faced by a growing production system. Using Wikipedia as a paradigmatic example of online social production, we characterize governance as an evolving, enabling and embedded process and discuss implications for a dynamic theory of governance.
KW - capability
KW - governance
KW - knowledge-based view
KW - social production
KW - Wikipedia
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U2 - 10.1177/0170840615584459
DO - 10.1177/0170840615584459
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946906651
SN - 0170-8406
VL - 36
SP - 1649
EP - 1673
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
IS - 12
ER -