Overcoming resource challenges in peer-production communities through bricolage: The case of HomeNets

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100365
Aljona Zorina
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Peer-production communities can create great value and foster innovation for their members, even in situations where resources are extremely scarce. How these communities create or acquire necessary resources in such settings is an important theoretical and practical question. In this paper, I investigate how a peer-production community overcame substantial resource challenges, using the analytic lens of bricolage theory, in a longitudinal study of HomeNets, communities of residents that developed residential Internet infrastructures and services for a million users in Minsk, Belarus, without funds, material resources, knowledge, or formal legal status. The findings illustrate that communities develop their missing resources by engaging in multiple coexisting bricolage forms and processes, which help them to successfully incorporate the individual and collective resource building efforts of their participants and address the challenges specific to the continuously evolving community. Based on the findings, I propose a model of community resource development with bricolage, discuss theoretical and practical implications for studies on communities and bricolage, and suggest areas for further research.

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通过拼凑克服同侪生产社区的资源挑战:HomeNets的案例
对等生产社区可以为其成员创造巨大价值并促进创新,即使在资源极其稀缺的情况下也是如此。这些社区如何在这样的环境中创造或获得必要的资源是一个重要的理论和实践问题。在本文中,我研究了一个对等生产社区如何克服实质性的资源挑战,使用拼凑理论的分析视角,在HomeNets的纵向研究中,在没有资金,物质资源,知识或正式法律地位的情况下,为白俄罗斯明斯克的一百万用户开发住宅互联网基础设施和服务的居民社区。研究结果表明,社区通过参与多种共存的拼凑形式和过程来开发其缺失的资源,这有助于他们成功地将参与者的个人和集体资源建设努力结合起来,并解决不断发展的社区所面临的具体挑战。在此基础上,本文提出了一种具有拼凑性的社区资源开发模型,讨论了社区和拼凑性研究的理论和实践意义,并提出了进一步研究的领域。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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