Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons

Author: David Gindis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009431903
Published In: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Human interactions, in any group or social setting, rely on and generate shared knowledge and social understandings. These shared intellectual resources are just as important to the efficient operation of markets and organizations as are their shared legal and material infrastructures. Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons focuses on the formal and informal arrangements that govern the creation and community management of intellectual resources within and across organizational boundaries. It demonstrates how the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework can be fruitfully combined with existing theoretical work on firms and corporate governance found in economics, management, and sociology.

The volume also proposes a new set of case studies, ranging from old industrial enterprises to modern venture capital, investor alliances, and decentralized autonomous organizations. Chapters explore the benefits of participatory approaches to the management of genomic or financial data, online gaming communities, and organic waste.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction: variety of corporate knowledge commons

David Gindis

2. Toward a knowledge commons perspective on the corporate form

David Gindis and Daniel H. Cole

3. What do corporations do?

Joshua Getzler

4. Managing knowledge in Baťa enterprises

Marek Hudik and Martin Komrska

5. Institutional complementarities in the governance of corporate knowledge commons

Erkan Gürpinar

6. Who owns a corporation? Common-sense commons and corporate governance

Tanweer Ali