From Bureaucracy to Peer Production: Organizations as Information-Processing Networks

Andrea Resca Cersi-Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy

Abstract
Due to bounded rationality, human beings have turned to market and bureaucracy because of their capability to manage information. Do the proliferation of the internet and of information technology, as instruments for processing information, lead to new organizational forms other than market and bureaucracy? Peer production can be considered in this regard and under specific conditions results even more effective for managing information.

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Reference:	Resca A. (2010). "From Bureaucracy to Peer Production: Organizations as Information-Processing Networks," Proceedings > Proceedings of ALPIS itAIS, Italy . Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 10(17). http://sprouts.aisnet.org/10-17
Keywords:	Market, bureaucracy, peer production, information-processing networks
Item Type:	Article - Volume 10 Article 17 (2010)
Language:	English
Email:	Andrea Resca (aresca@luiss.it)

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