The Private Governance of Hackerspaces

Darcy W.E. Allen

Chapter 4 in When Entrepreneurs Meet:The Collective Governance of New Ideas, 2020, pp 75-98 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:IntroductionHackers as Proto-entrepreneursPrivate Governance Mechanisms in HackerspacesSocial ostracism and exclusionCostly signals as non-price coordinationCollective action endogenous rule formationRules are nested in a hierarchyHackerspaces as Entrepreneurial Institutional SecessionConclusion

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Economics; Blockchain; Hackerspaces; Institutional Economics; Innovation Policy; Entrepreneurial Theory; Austrian Economics; Cryptoeconomy; Cryptoeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O1 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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