A recent example of this is artists moving from traditional record labels to organisations which core business is to organise performances. Everything else, including the records, is merchandise. I believe Madonna recently made this switch.
Many companies or parts of them have something like "Communities of Practice" or "Communities of Interest". In my master thesis I describe in fairly much detail how CoPs work and how they can be supported by software.
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A recent example of this is artists moving from traditional record labels to organisations which core business is to organise performances. Everything else, including the records, is merchandise. I believe Madonna recently made this switch.
Many companies or parts of them have something like "Communities of Practice" or "Communities of Interest". In my master thesis I describe in fairly much detail how CoPs work and how they can be supported by software.