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Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies

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Thomas W. Malone,

Joanne Yates,

Robert I. BenjaminAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 30, Issue 6

Pages 484 - 497

https://doi.org/10.1145/214762.214766

Published: 01 June 1987 Publication History

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By reducing the costs of coordination, information technology will lead to an overall shift toward proportionately more use of markets—rather than hierarchies—to coordinate economic activity.

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June 1987

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DOI:10.1145/214762

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