Works
- Coase's penguin, or, Linux and "The Nature of the Firm", The Yale Law Journal 112(3), 369 to 446, 2002
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, New Haven (hardcover 2006, ISBN 0300110561; the link is the publisher's page for the 2007 paperback), 2006
- Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm, Strategic Organization 15(2), 264 to 274, 2017
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Commons-based peer production
Ideas
Commons-based peer production. Benkler argued that in the networked environment a third mode of production is emerging beside firms and markets, in which people neither follow managers' directions nor respond to prices, with free and open source software as one example. Caveat: Conceptual.
Peer production and the firm. Argued that a quarter century of peer production challenges three assumptions of standard models: material incentives at the core of innovation, the centrality of property, and the centrality of firms. Caveat: An essay.