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It may not need to; they could take the approach of splitting the company into several smaller companies that are each an ideal size for this management style. I don't recall the name, but there is a manufacturing company (clothing, I think) that does this. Collectively the company has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of employees, but they're organized into independently run shops with around 500 people each.


Making the parallelism of firms as federations (not sure if is a correct assumption), this can surely relate with Proudhon's ideas about federations and confederations: http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#7


Gore dOes this


Morningstar Farms does this as well.




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