工商管理系讲座
工商管理系讲座
讲座主题： Where Can Open Collaboration Thrive? A Model of Performance
主讲嘉宾：Sheen S. Levine (Columbia)， Principal investigator,Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University
讲座时间：2013年1月9日（周三）10:30-12:00
讲座地点：管理学院MBA大楼M527
主办院系：工商管理系
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ABSTRACT:
“Open”, as in “open source”, is now associated with more than free software. It has expanded to describe a variety of collaborations, including internet enterprises such as Wikipedia, online forums and communities, but also elsewhere in medicine, science, and greater society. Such open collaborations have affected traditional firms, hinted at new forms of organization, and attracted much attention. Yet despite the economic and social impact, the performance of open collaboration remains a puzzle. Here we show that open collaboration is a robust engine for innovation and production, one that performs well even in apparently unfavorable conditions. We review multiple instances and identify distinguishing similarities. In all instance of open collaboration participants create goods and services of economic value, exchange and reuse each other’s work, labor purposefully with just loose coordination, and permit anyone to contribute and consume. To understand the drivers of performance, we examine a computational model that combines a recent finding on the psychology of human cooperation with extant theory on. We identify systematically manipulate three elements that affect performance – the cooperativeness of participants, heterogeneity of their needs, and the degree to which the goods are rival (subtractable). As we investigate performance in a variety of conditions we find that open collaboration performs robustly even in seemingly inhospitable conditions: when cooperators are just a fraction of participants, free riders are present, goods are rival, or diversity is lacking or good are rival. The results suggest that open collaboration is likely to continue expanding into new areas. We offer advice for leaders of open collaboration, managers, and policy makers.
