Cell as Corporation

Blockchain Thinking : The Brain as a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation [Commentary]

lockchains are a new form of informat ion technol o g y tha t cou ld have several important future applications. One is blockchain thinking, formulating thinking as a blockchain process. This could have benefits for both artificial intelligence and human enhancement, and their potential integration. Blockchain thinking is outlined here as an input-processing-output computational system. Its ben...

The Business Object as Tool to Federate a Large Corporation

A large European Energy Distribution Company (EDC) needs to adapt to the new state regulations. To do so they need to have a much thorough understanding of their stakeholders (customers, partners). This understanding is captured in data that needs to become a strategic asset. We explain how the concept of business object is used in organizing this data across the whole company. We also illustra...

Creating the N-form Corporation as a Managerial Competence

This paper discusses key properties of the N-form corporation or internal network forms of organizing from three mutually related perspectives: structure, knowledge flows and management processes. To operationalize knowledge flows, a key property of N-forms, the paper suggests a new measure, the H/V ratio, to empirically assess the configuration of knowledge flows. The argument is illustrated b...

McDonald’s Corporation

The multinational corporation

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