Factories, 4
Family. See Personal lives Fast Company, 401
Feedback, 196-197
Fine, Charles H., 164-165, 205-217, 417
Finserv, 251-254, 257, 260
Firms
agency issues and, 38-41
common assets and, 42-44
contractual assets and, 36-38
cross accreditation and, 365
customer focus and, 144
employees' lives and, 121-122
exclusive sourcing and, 34-36
guilds and, 353-374, 368
hold-up problem and, 25-29
inside contracting and, 34-36
IT and, 71-99 (see also Information technology (IT))
knowledge transfers and, 42-44
market monitoring and, 41-42
multiple-stakeholder view and, 337-340
Process Handbook and, 221-245
property rights theory and, 26, 29-31
raiding and, 368
scenario study and, 115-132
transaction cost theory and, 26-29, 32-34
Williamson and, 25-29, 31
Fit, 227-229
Fletcher, Joyce K., 323, 375-388, 417
Flexibility
in employment, 356-358
government and, 345-348
guilds and, 353-374 (see also Guilds)
work hours and, 379
Flow, 227-229
Ford Foundation, 376
Ford Motor Company, 298, 392, 398, 405-406
Ford, William Clay, 406
Foreign workers, 369
Fortune magazine, 6, 8
Freeagent.com, 367
Freelancers, 353-354. See also E-lancing; Guilds
corporation disintegration and, 105, 107-110
Frito-Lay, 299
Fruit fly analogy, 205-206, 210
Fuller, Buckminster, 396
Functional hierarchy, 5