"There are some who treat corporate forms as yet another technology (in this case a technology of..."

“There are some who treat corporate forms as yet another technology (in this case a technology of people-management), but despite the trappings of scientific foundations (usually in psychology) and engineering synthesis (we speak of organizational “design”), the corporate form is not a technology. It is the consequence of a social contract like the one that anchors nationhood. It is a codified bundle of quasi-religious beliefs externalized into an animate form that seeks to preserve itself like any other living creature.”

- Venkatesh Rao, A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (via stoweboyd)

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/127308065717