Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons
Will be published approx. on 23. July 2026
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-009-43190-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
ISBN-13
978-1-009-43190-3 (9781009431903)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
David Gindis
Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons
Book
approx. 07/2026
Cambridge University Press
€52.50
Not yet published
Person
David Gindis works at the intersections of corporate law, law and economics, institutional theory, and the history of economic thought. He is a co-founder of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) and an Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick.
Content
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 Bata enterprises Marek Hudik and Martin Komrska; 5. Institutional complementarities in the governance of corporate knowledge commons Erkan Guerpinar; 6. Who owns a corporation? Common-sense commons and corporate governance Tanweer Ali; 7. Corporate governance and knowledge commons Jeroen Veldman; 8. Venture capital as a commons Simon Deakin and Hanna Sitchenko; 9. Investor alliances as knowledge commons Amelia Miazad; 10. Data commons, data oligopolies. and consumer financial data trusts Alberto R. Salazar and Rezda Rezal; 11. Decentralised autonomous organisations as commons Sinclair Davidson; 12. The decentralized autonomous corporation as knowledge commons Michael J. Madison and Ilia Murtazashvili; 13. The human genome as knowledge commons: governance through mutual-benefit participatory democracy Benjamin Gregg; 14. Commoning through interactions: governing offline and online communities in the German video game influencer industry Deike Schulz; 15. Supply chain commons: organic waste, climate change, and regenerative farming in Peri-Urban Sydney Stephen Healy, Amy Cohen, and Abby Mellick Lopes.