Peer production: essentials and application
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https://doi.org/10.15584/nsawg.2022.2.3Keywords:
peer production, social economy, cooperation, redistributed manufacturingAbstract
The article identifies an organisational model that could face the threats posed by the modern economy. A knowledge-based economy, apart from obvious benefits, also carries threats. Implementing innovations and transforming the production of goods based on physical resources to the production of goods based on knowledge and intellectual resources requires access to appropriate assets and infrastructure. Since only a part of enterprises can afford to implement a digital transition, unequal differences between large and smaller entities stand out. Despite economic growth, inequalities may worsen and hence may lead to exclusion, especially in locations far from development areas. In the article, the author analyses the concept of peer production, an organisational model referred to as a network phenomenon. Its functioning involves the work of several people connected by a network and at the same time connected in a network. The production of (material and nonmaterial) goods in this model is based on cooperation, self-organisation of work, community building, and a focus on innovation and new technologies. The results of a literature review research methodology indicate that thanks to the features of peer production, it can reduce social inequalities and contribute to economic development. Further empirical research is needed in order to analyse practical usage and models of peer production.
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