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Preliminary class business

  • Handout: Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (1994), pp. 1-8, 15-19

1. Glossary, object, and bibliography work for the wiki

Glossary

Objects

Bibliography


2. Thinking Collaboration

Non-monetary context:

  1. What makes such a collaborative system "go"? (Why do you as an individual pitch in; what do you get out of it? What does the community get out of it?)

  2. (Strathern, pp. 14-15 a,b) What makes this New Ireland (Papau New Guinea) collaborative system "go"? (Why put shell money at the base of the Malanggan; what does that give you?)
    • Strathern, p. 18,d, e
    • Strathern, p. 21, f
    • Strathern, p.16, c

  3. Wikipedia (e.g., article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source "Open Source") What makes open source systems "go"?
    • Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, "Cooking-Pot Markets and Balanced Value Flows," p. 154
    • James Boyle, "Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain," p. 241

Monetary context:

  • Christopher Kelty, "Trust Among the Algorithms: Ownership, Identity, and the Collaborative Stewardship of Information," pp. 131-32 a, b
  1. What happens when we monetize, and propertize, collaboration?
  • Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, pp. 18-19
  1. Why does business today like "teams"?
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