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Yayın Free software, business capital, and institutional change: a veblenian analysis of the software industry(M. E. Sharpe Inc, 2012-12) Koloğlugil, Serhat; Koloğlugil, SerhatFree 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.Yayın Knowledge economy and the emergence of less-hierarchical organizational structures: an institutionalist approach(Işık Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023-10-25) Koloğlugil, Serhat; Koloğlugil, SerhatRecent years have witnessed the proliferation of horizontal and less-hierarchical governance structures in organizations. The present paper argues that this development can be read as an institutional transition, within organizations themselves, in response to the rise of knowledge economy. Drawing also upon the related literature on hunter and gatherers, the paper shows that asset-based production is generally related with hierarchical social relations, whereas knowledge-based economic activity tends to generate relatively horizontal and egalitarian structures. It is argued in the paper that a similar dynamic is at work in today’s knowledge-based organizations, and that the institutional approach has the conceptual tools to study this transformation. In this regard, the paper aims to open up a theoretical space where the tools of institutional theory can be used, not only in the study of macro social-structures, but also in that of organizations and their transformations. Some further theoretical and practical implications of this approach are discussed in the final section.
