@article {flosswp68,
	title = {Open Source Software Communities and Industrial Districts: A Useful Comparison?},
	year = {2002},
	month = {February},
	abstract = {Aim of this paper is to add a new and complementary perspective on the existing economic analysis of open-source software by comparing the structure and evolution of open-source software communities and of industrial districts, a peculiar organisational form of production based on a large number of interacting small and medium sized enterprises. The comparison between open-source software communities and industrial districts, in spite of some major differences allows the recognition of the role played by agglomeration economies, an explicit analysis of the incentives structure - governing the private provision of complex public goods-, and an in depth study of the governance structure and evolution of these phenomena. The paper presents some simple simulations which show the dependence of the governance structure{\textquoteright}s evolution on transaction costs dynamics.},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/maggioni.pdf},
	author = {Mario Maggioni}
}
