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French overview of the liberated-company movement: pioneers, adopters (Décathlon, Michelin, MAIF...), critiques, key sources.
The verified library of the self-management field: the articles, podcasts, papers and cases worth knowing, from Corporate Rebels to HBR to SciELO, each with a one-line read and a link to the source. Distinct from our own writing in the Library. See the field mapped →
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French overview of the liberated-company movement: pioneers, adopters (Décathlon, Michelin, MAIF...), critiques, key sources.
· Change the Work
Getz on the first generation (Gore, USAA, FAVI, Semco...) and the second (Poult, Chronoflex, HCL...).
· Blog
Notes on the documentary and on Arte's 'Le Bonheur au travail' (2015); traces the term to Tom Peters (1993).
· Talentis
Getz explains why so few of the thousands of FAVI visitors ever changed anything.
· Master's students
French academic dossier reviewing Getz & Carney and the FAVI/Poult/Chronoflex cases.
· Stephanie Borgert
German essay mapping the most-cited self-organising companies (Buurtzorg, Upstalsboom, Haufe-umantis, dm, Semco, FAVI...).
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Overview of ten alternative structures (mini-factories, micro-enterprises, cells, squads) with the companies that invented them.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Second part of the FAVI story: customer-focused mini-factories and Zobrist's trust-based leadership.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Profile of Zobrist, who turned FAVI into France's most-cited 'liberated company' from 1983.
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Profile listing the dozens of companies studied and the book's 14 translations.
· Emmanuel Mas
Practitioner review recommending the film as an entry point to liberated companies.
· Jean-François Zobrist
Zobrist's own account: FAVI from 80 to 650 people with 20%+ cash-flow for 30 years, without 'learning to manage'.
· Aaron Dignan & Rodney Evans, with Yehudi Meshchaninov
A rare honest episode on the 'shadow side' of self-management — the frustrations of living inside Buurtzorg/Morning Star/FAVI/Haier-style systems, not just the highlight reel.
· Aaron Dignan
Dignan's research tool built from studying Automattic, Buurtzorg, dm-drogerie markt, FAVI, Haier, Handelsbanken, Menlo, Morning Star, Patagonia, Spotify and W.L. Gore, among others.