Zorina, A orcid.org/0000-0001-9133-1478 (2021) Overcoming resource challenges in peer-production communities through bricolage: The case of HomeNets. Information and Organization, 31 (3). 100365. ISSN 1471-7727
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Information and Organization. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Peer-production communities; Resources; Bricolage; Information technology; Case study |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2021 09:49 |
Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100365 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179315 |