Finished reading 'The Corporation in the 21st Century'. Looking forward to part 2. The 'mediating hierarchy' is one of the interesting topics discussed. Anyone recommend any further reading on 'mediating hierarchies' or related?

Finished reading 'The Corporation in the 21st Century'. Looking forward to part 2. The 'mediating hierarchy' is one of the interesting topics discussed. Anyone recommend any further reading on 'mediating hierarchies' or related?

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Added to my reading list. The Gervais Principle @vgr is kind of about mediating hierarchies… maybe not in the exact same sense

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Added to my reading list. The Gervais Principle @vgr is kind of about mediating hierarchies… maybe not in the exact same sense  https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

Not sure I'd agree all mediating hierarchies are flawed or intrinsically pathological. My reading Kay sees the mediating hierarchy as scaffolding for mutual gain and collective intelligence.

“The core ideas in this book – collective intelligence, radical uncertainty, disciplined pluralism, relational contracts and the mediating hierarchy – have been extensively developed and discussed by earlier writers, though much of that work has been outside the context of business organisation. The relevance of each to the argument of this book arises from a belief that in the modern world successful commercial relationships are not simply instrumental and transactional; they are social and are embedded in a wider framework of communities and teams.”

— Kay, John. The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong

+1. Haven't read the book yet, but putting my workplace safety hat on, I'd guess that mediating hierarchies generate a lot of protocols that manage the tensions between the trade-off preferences of labor and capital. Like safety protocols, which are mutually beneficial esp. in long run.