OPEN TEAM PRODUCTION, THE NEW COOPERATIVE FIRM, AND HYBRID ADVANTAGE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berti, Marco; Pitelis, Christos
• 署名单位: University of Technology Sydney; University of Leeds; University of Leeds
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2019.0416
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 309-330
• 关键词: SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY; MARKET NOR HIERARCHY; INTERFIRM RELATIONSHIPS; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; WORKER COOPERATIVES; ECONOMIC-EFFICIENCY; OPEN COLLABORATION; PROPERTY-RIGHTS; CO-CREATION; INNOVATION

摘要

We critically assess the comparative efficiency advantages and disadvantages of capitalist versus cooperative firms using team production as a frame of reference. We revisit the debate about such (dis)advantages in the context of open team production, a situation in which teammembers are both internal and external to the firm. In contrast to the case of traditional (closed) team production, which focuses on the problem of monitoring team members within the firm, open team production requires incentivizing both internal and external team members to commit to firm-specific co-specialized investments, as well as orchestrating and monitoring these continued investments. We identify some comparative efficiency (dis)advantages of traditional cooperative and capitalist firms in dealing with the novel challenges posed by open team production, and we conclude that, in its context, a new type of a hybrid firm can possess comparative efficiency advantages vis-a-vis both types of traditional firms.