Phil! I too have been looking for similar resources and they are tough to come by. I find it hard to think of resources that fit your specific qualifications (published; no broad sketch books on the new economy) but offer the following that might be somewhat relevant: Vincent Mosco, "Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis," in Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss, eds, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory (Routledge, 2000) Daniel Marschall, "'Nurture the Hurt, Dude!': An Ethnographic Portrait of an Internet Software Development Firm." (Dan presented portions of this paper at AIR 1.0; he can be contacted, I think, at: djmarsch@usa.net) Andrew Ross has a piece on Silicon Alley in NY in his book Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice (NYU Press, 1998); it's called "Jobs in Cyberspace." Ok, you said you wanted scholarly pieces but if you're willing to twist your definition of scholarly a bit I'd suggest the following: Bill Lessard & Steve Baldwin, Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web (McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2000) Casey Kait & Stephen Weiss, Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley (ReganBooks, 2001) and my personal fav Po Bronson, The Nudist on the Late Shift (Broadway Books, 2000) Good luck Phil, david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver
I'm on the hunt for favorite published pieces on the organizational behavior of e-commerce & other new economy firms. Ethnographies in which an e-commerce firm was a field site, or larger comparative / quantitative studies of new economy firms ideal.
I'm not interested in broad sketch books on the new economy, bubbles, collapses or economic destinies. I'm interested in scholarly pieces where a particular firms are studied, especially if they are comparative and try to make distinctions with old economy non-e-commerce firms. Studies of non-profits or state organizations welcome but my instinct is that there are few of these.