Emerging Firm Structures in the Knowledge Economy
The growth of the knowledge-based economy is fostering the development of new organizational forms. According to the book The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Tim O’Reilly and Eric S. Raymond, these emerging types of firms have structures that differ from both traditional capitalist models and worker-owned cooperatives.
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