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