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In Section 11 and elsewhere we have considered tasks that can only be performed by organizations. There are other activities in which organizations compete with individuals. In many areas it appears that organizations are in fact on the advance. Increasingly they are taking over functions previously performed mainly by individuals. Is this true? What, if any, are the economic facts that would permit and drive this process?

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Beckmann, M.J. (1983). Advantage of Organization. In: Tinbergen Lectures on Organization Theory. Texts and Monographs in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96779-5_5

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