Comparison of Organizational Forms

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How different Business models create, deliver, and capture Value.

Core Concepts

• Who owns the Means of Production?
• Who owns the Product?
• How are these limited resources Allocated?
• Can these material assets be bought and sold?
• How is Profit treated?
• How are Workers compensated?
• How are Investors compensated?
• Is Abundance good or bad?
• Is Automation good or bad?
• Is Work a goal to maximize or a hurdle to minimize?
• Can 'regular' money be used within the system?
• Does the system provide an 'alternate' currency?
• How does the latecomer gain his own stake?
• Can the organization arbitrarily refuse admittance?
• How are Public Works funded?
• How are collective decisions made?
• How does a willing Worker know what needs to be done?
• How is Freeriding avoided?
• How are borders between 'public' and 'personal' property established?
• Who or how do we decide what and how much to produce?
• How do we avoid the Tyranny of the Majority?

Various Approaches (please expand)

• Buying Club
• Capitalism
• Club Goods
• Co-Creation
• Co-production
• Common Security Clubs
• Consumers Cooperative
• Copyfarleft
• Crowdsourcing
• Distributism
• Economic Democracy
• Food Cooperative
• Give Away Economy
• Home Owners Association
• Intention Economy
• Neighborhood Renting and Loan Systems
• Neocommercialization
• Oekonux
• Open Capital
• P2P in Multi-Unit Housing
• Payer Grown
• Peer Production
• Peer Trust Network Project
• Peer-to-Peer Product-Service Systems
• Peerconomy
• Product-Service System
• Property Left
• Public Private Property
• Resource-based Economy
• Seikatsu Cooperatives
• United Diversity
• Use Communities
• User Owned
• Utilicontributism
• Worker Cooperative
• Worker Owned

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