The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life

Malone extends his 1987 paper with Yates and Benjamin to argue that technology is pushing organisations toward radical decentralisation — not as an ideology but as the inevitable economic consequence of falling communication costs. The interesting move is that decentralisation is not presented as a value judgement: it is what happens when the cost structure of coordination changes. Read alongside Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies to see how the same author develops the thesis across two decades and follows where the data leads.