The Last Mile of the Market: How Network Technologies, Architectures of Participation and Peer Production Transform the Design of Work and Labour.
The paradigm of the last mile is most significant in its embrace of complexity, self-organization and achieving ends without direct control. Network technologies, architectures of participation and peer-production challenge traditional approaches to control but enable organizations to harness new an...
| Published in: | Innovation Journal Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 17 - 31 |
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Innovation Journal
2008
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| Summary: | The paradigm of the last mile is most significant in its embrace of complexity, self-organization and achieving ends without direct control. Network technologies, architectures of participation and peer-production challenge traditional approaches to control but enable organizations to harness new and emergent capabilities including: * Engagement: by pursuing (work-related) interests that workers are passionate about * Continuity of effort beyond the boundaries of particular job * Extended Specialization: beyond the limits of the occupational structure * Increasing productivity * A deep culture of collaboration Reprinted by permission of the publisher. |
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