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Phanish Puranam
Professor of Strategy
Keywords
New Forms of Organizing; Organizational Design; Boss-less Organization; Self-Allocation; Organizational Change;
Journal Article
Burton R. M., Hakonsson D. D., Nickerson J., Puranam P., Workiewicz M., Zenger T. R. (2017). GitHub: Exploring the Space Between Boss-Less and Hierarchical Forms of Organizing (10) Journal of Organization Design, 6(1)
In this edition of the organizational zoo series, the authors take a closer look at an interesting organization design case—GitHub, a software company from California. Similar to Valve, the subject of the previous article in the series (Puranam and Håkonsson, J Organ Design 4: 2–4, 2015) GitHub is used to delegate the choice of projects and project allocation to its workers, fitting the recent trend in running organizations without bosses.