{"id":51548,"date":"2015-08-31T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51548"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:06:07","slug":"networks-and-the-nature-of-the-firm-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/08\/31\/networks-and-the-nature-of-the-firm-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Networks and the Nature of the Firm [O’Reilly]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Networks and the Nature of the Firm<\/strong><\/a> — from medium.com by Tim O’Reilly
\nThe discussion around companies like Uber and Airbnb is too narrow. The issue isn\u2019t just employment, but a huge economic shift led by software and connectedness.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the themes we\u2019re exploring at the Next:Economy summit<\/a> is the way that networks trump traditional forms of corporate organization, and how they are changing traditional ways of managing that organization. Uber and Airbnb are textbook examples of this trend. Uber has ambitious plans to manage hundreds of thousands?\u2014?eventually even millions?\u2014?of independent drivers with a small core of employees building a technology platform that manages those workers. Airbnb is on track to have more rooms on offer than large hotel chains, with under a thousand employees.<\/p>\n

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But the Internet takes the networked firm to a new level. Google, the company that ended up as the prime gateway to the World Wide Web, provides access to a universe of content that it doesn\u2019t own yet has become the largest media company in the world<\/a>. 13\u201324 years olds already watch more video on YouTube, much of it user-contributed, than they watch on television<\/a>. And Amazon just surpassed WalMart as the world\u2019s most valuable retailer<\/a> by offering virtually unlimited selection, including marketplace items from ordinary individuals and small businesses<\/p>\n

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Networks and the Nature of the Firm — from medium.com by Tim O’Reilly The discussion around companies like Uber and Airbnb is too narrow. The issue isn\u2019t just employment, but a huge economic shift led by software and connectedness. Excerpt: One of the themes we\u2019re exploring at the Next:Economy summit is the way that networks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,387,86,209,45,112,55,239,204,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-internet","category-new-business-models","category-programming","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51550,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548\/revisions\/51550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}