This (link follows) is perhaps the best essay I have ever read on the application of open source principles to the management of activities in a networked (and vitualized) form of organization. The author explores conventional management practices and the differences encountered (the hows and whys) during the creation and evolution of what we know as Linux.

Written in 2001 by George Dafermos, a young Greek management scholar as he was completing his Master's degree .. it has been much overlooked ;-)

"Management and virtual decentralized networks: the Linux project"