Module 3: New Organisational Forms (Collaborative Community) (Adler & Hecksher, 2011)

Question 1

Collaborative Organisational Forms (Kolbjornsrud, 2018)

Answer 1

• Market
• Hierarchy
• Community

Question 2

Market Form

Answer 2

• Task division: scope of transacted good typically set by buyers, division of tasks to provide good by supplier
• Task allocation
  > assignment: bidding/price, decentralised in beads (Can be facilitated by centralised platforms)
  > Resource allocation: price mechanism
  > Quality/ Task approval by: customer
• Reward distribution: incentives: compensation for outputs via price mechanism (Strong).
• Information provision
  > information flow: via networks, information intermediaries (private & public)
  > Information aggregation via: price mechanism, market intermediaries & information aggregators

Question 3

Hierarchy

Answer 3

• Tasks division: managerial decision (authority), centralised.
• Task allocation
  > Assignment: managerial decision (authority), centralised
  > Resource allocation: managerial decision (authority)
  > Quality/task approval by: manager
• Reward distribution: incentives: typically compensation for inputs (e.g. time) (weak)
• Information provision
  > information flow: directed, primarily vertical
  > information aggregation via: hierarchical channels

Question 4

Community

Answer 4

• Task division: distributed identification and division of tasks by general members
• Task allocation
  > assignment: self-assignment, decentralised (can be facilitated by centralised platforms)
  > resource allocation: actor-based mobilisation of shared resources in commons
  > Quality/task approval by: peer
• Reward distribution: incentives: benefits from use of complementary, non-rival goods; other intrinsic & extrinsic rewards (weak)
• Information provision:
  > information flow: transparent, via networks & commons
  > information aggregation via: commons, collective problem, & solution representations.

Question 5

Collaborative Community Model

Answer 5

• organised around a sense o shared purpose
• coordinated through collaboratively developed, carefully documented procedures.
• these organisational excel at interdependent knowledge-based work.
• organisation can be both effective & adaptive with “collaborative communities” motivated by a collective mission (not just personal gain or the intrinsic pleasures of autonomous creativity - exploration - contextual ambidexterity).