Michael, there's an extensive literature on the role of the Hayekian 
"knowledge problem" within the firm. Representative publications include:

Cowen, Tyler and Jerry Ellig. 1996. "Market-Based Management at Koch 
Industries: Discovery, Dissemination, and Integration of Knowledge." 
Competitive Intelligence Review 6: 4-13.

Foss, Kirsten and Nicolai Foss. 2002. "Organizing Economic Experiments: 
Property Rights and Firm Organization." Review of Austrian Economics 15: 
297-312.

Foss, Nicolai J. 1999. "The Use of Knowledge in Firms." Journal of 
Institutional and Theoretical Economics 155: 458-86.

Ghoshal, Sumantra, Peter Moran and Luis Almeida-Costa. 1995. "The Essence of 
the Megacorporation: Shared Context, not Structural Hierarchy." Journal of 
Institutional and Theoretical Economics 151: 748-59.

Jensen, Michael C. and William H. Meckling. 1992. "Specific and General 
Knowledge and Organizational Structure." In Lars Werin and Hans Wijkander, 
eds., Contract Economics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Langlois, Richard N. 1995. "Do Firms Plan?" Constitutional Political Economy 
6: 247-61.

Minkler, Alanson P. 1993a. "The Problem With Dispersed Knowledge: Firms in 
Theory and Practice." Kyklos 46: 569-87.

Minkler, Alanson P. 1993b. "Knowledge and Internal Organization." Journal of 
Economic Behavior and Organization 21: 17-30.

Tsoukas, H. 1996. "The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System: A 
Constructionist Approach." Strategic Management Journal 17: 11-25.


On the relationship between dispersed knowledge, authority, and ownership, 
from a Misesian calculation perspective, see:

Foss, Kirsten, Nicolai J. Foss, and Peter G. Klein. 2007. "Original and 
Derived Judgment: An Entrepreneurial Theory of Economic Organization." 
Organization Studies, forthcoming.

Foss, Nicolai J. 2001. "Misesian Ownership and Coasian Authority in Hayekian 
Settings: The Case of the Knowledge Economy." Quarterly Journal of Austrian 
Economics 4, no. 4: 3-24.

Klein, Peter G. 1996. "Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization." 
Review of Austrian Economics 9: 3-28.

Lewin, Peter. 1998. "The Firm, Money and Economic Calculation: Considering 
the Institutional Nexus of Market Production." American Journal of Economics 
and Sociology 57, no. 4: 499-512.

Taylor, Thomas C. 2000. "Current Developments in Cost Accounting and the 
Dynamics of Economic Calculation." Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 
3, no 2: 3-29.

Regards,
Peter Klein