Peer Production Bring Efficiency by Its Power Law Behavior: A Case Study

Peer production, based on Internet and characterized by no professional management, is a new pattern of knowledge production. We choose the book management system and Website of reading group belonging to peer production for comparative case study with complex network approach .The result suggest the order accompanying high production efficiency emerged in the latter, but not in the former. We propose a theoretical explanation according to the dissipative structure theory for the emergence of the order, which is accounted for positive feedback cycle in this peer production program.