IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/scaman/v26y2010i2p215-223.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Nomadic strategies in the network society: From Lawrence of Arabia to Linux

Author

Listed:
  • Munro, Iain

Abstract

Summary This paper develops the concept of nomadic strategy and how this concept explains the growing success of communities such as the Linux open source movement. These poorly resourced groups tend to adopt strategies that have remarkable similarities with guerrilla or nomadic tactics, especially in the software and music business. Rather than erecting barriers to entry, these strategies attempt to exploit the nomadic tendencies of information. This paper develops a set of theoretical principles for nomadic strategy and shows how the Linux community has successfully exploited them.

Suggested Citation

  • Munro, Iain, 2010. "Nomadic strategies in the network society: From Lawrence of Arabia to Linux," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 215-223, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:26:y:2010:i:2:p:215-223
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956522110000230
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Munro, Iain & Thanem, Torkild, 2018. "Deleuze and the deterritorialization of strategy," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 69-78.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:26:y:2010:i:2:p:215-223. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/872/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.