Free software, business capital, and institutional change: a veblenian analysis of the software industry

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dc.authorid0000-0002-2399-4349
dc.contributor.authorKoloğlugil, Serhaten_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-15T23:02:02Z
dc.date.available2015-01-15T23:02:02Z
dc.date.issued2012-12
dc.departmentIşık Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonomi (İktisat) Bölümüen_US
dc.departmentIşık University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economicsen_US
dc.description.abstractFree software, unlike proprietary software under exclusive copyright control, exemplifies a form of productive and innovative activity that is based upon mutual sharing of technological knowledge. Free software engineers, who get connected through various software-development projects, voluntarily contribute their time and skills to produce computer programs which, they insist, should be free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. This paper argues that Thorstein Veblen's socio-economic theory - in particular his conceptions of capital, technological knowledge and institutional change - offers a fruitful framework to analyze the emergence of free software as an economic and social phenomenon. From the Veblenian perspective, the free software movement argues that the technological knowledge in the software industry should freely be available to society as a part of its common stock of knowledge. In other words, they are against the use of copyright law as a predatory strategy by software corporations, while the current technological conditions in the software industry allow for an institutional arrangement of production and innovation based on cooperative habits of thought.en_US
dc.description.versionPublisher's Versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationKologlugil, S. (2012). Free software, business capital, and institutional change: A veblenian analysis of the software industry. Journal of Economic Issues, 46(4), 831-858. doi:10.2753/JEI0021-3624460401en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2753/JEI0021-3624460401
dc.identifier.endpage858
dc.identifier.issn0021-3624
dc.identifier.issn1946-326X
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84871423514
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage831
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11729/429
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624460401
dc.identifier.volume46
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000312803600001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakSocial Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)en_US
dc.institutionauthorKoloğlugil, Serhaten_US
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0002-2399-4349
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherM. E. Sharpe Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Economic Issuesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectCopyright lawen_US
dc.subjectFree softwareen_US
dc.subjectOpen-source softwareen_US
dc.subjectSoftware industryen_US
dc.subjectThorstein Veblenen_US
dc.subjectVeblen,Thorsteinen_US
dc.subjectEconomicsen_US
dc.subjectTechnologyen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionen_US
dc.titleFree software, business capital, and institutional change: a veblenian analysis of the software industryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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