Business of Computing

What do we mean by the business of computing? Not trivial. Since we are not in the business of delineating whether a business is in the computing industry or not and that category in itself is becoming very blury, here are some references that can start a lead at thinking through the concept of the business of computing.

First, we are not interested in defining the business of computing, but empirically studying actors and their practices to understand how they came to be and where they are going. We do so with an emphasis on production: what do they produce, how is the production organized and for who do they produce.

If we are going to talk about businesses, than it is also necessary to think about the corporation or the firm and how we conceptualize it. This will take longer work that could benefit from looking at Martha's thesis. I also appreciated the chapter in this thesis on the corporation which gives an overview of literature starting from Weber and Coase and all the way to feminist theory:

Jayme Walenta, PhD Thesis https://scholar.archive.org/work/r3namx2rr5e47apoti7iogtlsq/access/wayback/https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0066891/1