Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) 7: “No territory, no profit: The Pirate Organization and capitalism in the making”- Vergne & Durand)
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Today’s article offered for consideration and commentary is on Pirates- and who does not get excited about that? The pirate organization is treated as an organizational metaphor- in that the authors do first talk about how actual 17th century sea pirates did move about in this pirate innovation form/function, the modern pirate forms such as British pirate radio stations in the 1960s, cyber-pirate groups of the 1970s-1990s, and “bio-pirate” science groups hacking into the human DNA project are all examples. Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne’s article is available here, and as a 9-page piece, it is a fast and enjoyable read. I…
