Academic Articles and Books on Professional Guilds and Open Innovation

• Free Agents in the OldeWorld: The future of work in Free Agent Nation may look strangely like the past, says MIT's Thomas Malone. Prithee: Art thou ready to join a guild?, Fast Company, May 



• Retreat of the Firm and the Rise of Guilds: The Employment Relationship in an Age of Virtual Business, by Robert Laubacher and Thomas W. Malone, MIT. This paper appears in Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, a volume of articles edited by Professors Malone and Laubacher and their colleague Michael Scott Morton



• Free Agent Nation, Dan Pink



• Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley, by Chris Benner, Manuel Castells, Preface



• The Open-Innovation Model, Henry W. Chesbrough, MIT Sloan Mgmt Review, Spring 2003



• Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, by Henry William Chesbrough



• Open Innovation: Interview with Henry Chesbrough, April 2003, Corante