This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question of the coherence of … the firm through the analysis of the dialectic interaction between hierarchies and Knowledge-Intensive Communities (KnICs … of communication between communities), we draw a typology allowing a better understanding of the processes of …

This article proposes an interpretation of the firm as a bundle of interacting communities, in the perspective of the … knowledge-based economy. It focuses on the examination of the forms of voluntary co-operative exchange in the communities and …