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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Free market vs Central planning
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Date: 29 Dec 89 14:53:03 GMT
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In article <NELSON.89Dec28205458@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
   If the free market is so efficient and capable in bringing goods to
   market, then why don't companies use the free market internally?

Some do.  Many companies are structured as federations of divisions
with weak central control and division heads operating very much like
classical entrepreneurs.  The internal free market operates by lower
echelons "selling" their ideas to those higher in the heirarchy, in
competition with other ideas for finite resources and attention just
as the company or division as a whole sells to its consumers.

Such companies are more flexible than the typical monolith, and able
to interact more quickly to the market.  They are often models of
success.  Then, because of their remarkable growth, they hire ex-IBM
managers and grow an overabundant middle management, and start filing
lawsuits...