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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Firm as a Large, Complex, Extended Family
““The job of clever people is to ask difficult questions. The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones. Eighty years ago a young British economist wondered: why do companies exist? The answer that he gave remains as fascinating today as it was back then. . . Most economists had been content to treat firms as black boxes. Mr Coase wondered what the black boxes were doing there in the first place. He used a scholarship that he won as an undergraduate to visit leading American firms such as Ford and General Motors. He summed up his thinking in his 1937 essay, The Nature of the Firm, which at first attracted no attention whatsoever, but continues to be cited to this day.””
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Social Network Analysis: making invisible work visible. | Communities and Collaboration
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Medicine Must Get Social – Healthcare – The Patient – Informationweek
