The Strategy Finding Task within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community

This article will focus on how the strategy finding task is performed within collaborative networks in general and in the open source community of Linux in particular. It will show the self-organising power and apparent success of purpose-based strategy finding processes within the Linux community, ensuring the interaction between change trajectories of its purpose, internal capabilities and external possibilities. It is argued that a number of mechanisms have institutionalised this interaction in the community.