Comments on: The four necessary characteristics of open business formats https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-four-necessary-characteristics-of-open-business-formats/2015/10/30 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 01 Nov 2015 09:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: David Week https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-four-necessary-characteristics-of-open-business-formats/2015/10/30/comment-page-1#comment-1447834 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 09:27:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=52501#comment-1447834 In theory, yes. In practice, you run up against the problem of overhead/bandwidth. Already, we have problems getting citizen engagement and understanding in local, state and national government. If then start to load each person up with a governance role in everything in which they have a stake, they may be unable to fulfil such a function well. This is what is/was interesting about liquid democracy: it recognised such problems.

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-four-necessary-characteristics-of-open-business-formats/2015/10/30/comment-page-1#comment-1447391 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 02:30:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=52501#comment-1447391 I think multi-stakeholder models also offer a solution here.

]]> By: David Week https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-four-necessary-characteristics-of-open-business-formats/2015/10/30/comment-page-1#comment-1446115 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:27:49 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=52501#comment-1446115 “Workplace democracy without workers ownership is sham. But media is obsessed with Zappos, Github, Buffer, Valve among others which are shareholder owned for-profit corporations.”

If an organisation has a social or common good purpose, then perhaps it should not be controlled by the workers.The most common social enterprise model is:

• paid workers who run operations
• unpaid, independent directors who ensure that the operations continue to adhere to purpose.

When the paid workers also govern, the risk is heightened that self-interests starts to bias or even overwhelm the original purpose.

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