What does the business firm of the future look like? In a special episode of the Delve podcast investigating digital platform economies, blurred firm-market boundaries, and shifting bureaucracies, Desautels professor and Delve Editor-in-Chief Saku Mantere speaks with Nobel Prize in Economics winner and Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT Bengt Holmström. Their conversation investigates how companies are changing today: What social structures, financial factors, and digital technologies are at play in how contemporary businesses are changing the traditional nature of the firm? And are hierarchical bureaucracies and conventional leadership soon to become a thing of the past?

For research-based insights, listen to the Delve podcast interview and read the Q&A article with Bengt Holmström and Saku Mantere in Delve's Spring 2023 digital magazine: Reworking Bureaucracy.

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