Future of Work and Collaborative Innovation Networks
MIT Sloan 15.599, spring term 2005, Tue/Thu 4:30-6:00 pm, E51-063, T. Allen, P. Gloor
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Materials

The course is based on the “The Future of Work”, by Thomas W. Malone, Harvard Business School Press, 2004 and the online book manuscript “Net.Creators” by Peter Gloor, available at http://www.ickn.org/book/COINs.html.


Additional readings - books:
Allen, T. 1977. Managing the Flow of Techology, MIT Press.
Chesbrough, H. W. 2003. Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Harvard Business School Press.
Wasserman , S., Faust, K. 1994. Social Network Analysis : Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press.
Weber, Steven. 2004. The Success of Open Source. Harvard University Press.

Additional readings - articles:
Allen, Thomas J., Organizing for Product Development (December 2001). MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4229-01. http://ssrn.com/abstract=297304
Ancona, D. Bresman, H, Kaeufer, K. 2002. The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 33-39
Bonabeau, E. Meyer, C. 2001. Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think about Business. Harvard Business Review, May 2001
Chesbrough, H. W. 2003. A Better Way to Innovate, Harvard Business Review July.
Cummings, J., Cross, R. 2003. Structural properties of work groups and their consequences for performance. Social Networks, 25(3), 197-210
Debian Constitution, Constitution for the Debian Project (v1.2). http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
Eclipse Project Charter. http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/eclipse-charter.html
Greve, Arent. 2004. Creativity in Social Networks: Combining Knowledge in Innovations. INSNA SUNBELT XXIV conference, Portoroz, Slovenija, May 12-16,
Hamel, Gary, 2001.Waking Up IBM: How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue, Harvard Business Review, April.
Moon, J.Y. Sproull, L. 2000. The essence of distributed work: the case of the Linux kernel. First Monday, vol. 5, no. 11 (November), http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_11/moon/
O’Mahony, S. 2003. Guarding the commons: how community managed software projects protect their work. Research Policy 32. 1179-1198.
Shepherd, Gordon, Shepherd, Gary. 2002. The Family in Transition: The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement. CESNUR Conference, Salt Lake City, June 25
Tyler, Josh, Wilkinson, Dennis, Huberman, Bernardo A. 2003. Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations. HP Laboratories, http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/email/index.html
von Hippel, Eric. 2002 „Horizontal Innovation Networks – by and for Users“ MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 4366-02 (June) http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/Publications.htm
Watts, D.J. Strogatz, S.H. 1998. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks, Nature, 393:440-442 (1998), http://tam.cornell.edu/SS_nature_smallworld.pdf
Wenger, E. Snyder, W. 2000. Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier. Harvard Business Review