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Conventional firms are credited with financing and efficiency advantages but criticised for externalising costs.
Attributed contributors: Erik Forman. “Conventional firms are credited with financing and efficiency advantages but criticised for externalising costs..” Lessons from The Drivers Cooperative: Can Technology Ventures Really Work with Democratic Governance?. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 17 September 2026. Session time 13:26–14:49. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-a1c77ee8e57a
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Conventional firms are credited with financing and efficiency advantages but criticised for externalising costs.
Proposed mechanism: Growth incentives and concentrated control facilitate execution while narrowing accountability.
Limit: Ideal-type comparison; firms and democracies lie on a spectrum.
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