Philip Anderson

ThinkersManagement scholar

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Organizing knowledge work and new organizational forms.

Ideas

New forms for intellect. With Quinn and Finkelstein, named forms (infinitely flat, inverted, spider's web, and starburst) that differ by where the firm's intellect sits and how it is multiplied. Caveat: A practitioner article, illustrated with firm examples and not tested. Only passages of the article were read.

Defining the DAO. In a commentary on Hsieh and Vergne's account of Bitcoin, defined a decentralized autonomous organization as software rules executing routines plus votes from some class of members. Caveat: A commentary; no empirical test is reported.

In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.

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