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題名 Organizing the Unorganized: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Commons Communities
作者 李治安
LEE, JYH-AN
貢獻者 法科所
關鍵詞 Nonprofit organizations;Studies;Formal organization;Decision making;Proprietary;Software;Profits;Internet;Organization theory;Failure;Community
日期 2010.07
上傳時間 3-Dec-2013 16:45:10 (UTC+8)
摘要 In recent years, commons communities, such as Wikipedia and free or open source software communities, have received extensive attention from academia. Conventional wisdom holds that these communities have produced information across boundaries, rendering formal organizations obsolete. Nonetheless, this article demonstrates that nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are actually playing a vital role in the digital commons production process. This conclusion is based on current commons and NPO scholarship and a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews with officers of NPOs and for-profit organizations associated with commons communities. NPOs` function for those communities in managing property fights, transacting with other entities, protecting individuals from potential liabilities, and institutionalizing various decision-making and standard-setting processes. The unique organizational structures of NPOs, associated with a "nondistribution constraint," have provided indispensable trust for community members. This article proposes that the commons environment has provided an "environmental niche" in which NPOs thrive. That is, the nature of NPOs is more consistent with commons-environment culture than is the nature of for-profit enterprises or governmental units.
關聯 Jurimetrics, 50(3), 275-327
資料類型 article
dc.contributor 法科所en_US
dc.creator (作者) 李治安zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) LEE, JYH-ANen_US
dc.date (日期) 2010.07en_US
dc.date.accessioned 3-Dec-2013 16:45:10 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 3-Dec-2013 16:45:10 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 3-Dec-2013 16:45:10 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/62075-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) In recent years, commons communities, such as Wikipedia and free or open source software communities, have received extensive attention from academia. Conventional wisdom holds that these communities have produced information across boundaries, rendering formal organizations obsolete. Nonetheless, this article demonstrates that nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are actually playing a vital role in the digital commons production process. This conclusion is based on current commons and NPO scholarship and a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews with officers of NPOs and for-profit organizations associated with commons communities. NPOs` function for those communities in managing property fights, transacting with other entities, protecting individuals from potential liabilities, and institutionalizing various decision-making and standard-setting processes. The unique organizational structures of NPOs, associated with a "nondistribution constraint," have provided indispensable trust for community members. This article proposes that the commons environment has provided an "environmental niche" in which NPOs thrive. That is, the nature of NPOs is more consistent with commons-environment culture than is the nature of for-profit enterprises or governmental units.-
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dc.relation (關聯) Jurimetrics, 50(3), 275-327en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Nonprofit organizations;Studies;Formal organization;Decision making;Proprietary;Software;Profits;Internet;Organization theory;Failure;Communityen_US
dc.title (題名) Organizing the Unorganized: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Commons Communitiesen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen