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This article will focus on how the strategy finding task is performed within collaborative networks in general and in the open source community of Linux in particular. It will show the self-organising power and apparent success of purpose-based strategy finding processes within the Linux community, ensuring the interaction between change trajectories of its purpose, internal capabilities and external possibilities. It is argued that a number of mechanisms have institutionalised this interaction in the community.
“Something akin to a corporation will have to co-ordinate the next society’s economic resources”
Peter F. Drucker, 2001
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van Wendel de Joode, R., Kemp, J. (2002). The Strategy Finding Task Within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35585-6_55
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