· Stephanie Borgert
German essay mapping the most-cited self-organising companies (Buurtzorg, Upstalsboom, Haufe-umantis, dm, Semco, FAVI...).
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· Stephanie Borgert
German essay mapping the most-cited self-organising companies (Buurtzorg, Upstalsboom, Haufe-umantis, dm, Semco, FAVI...).
· changeX
Series on companies that elect their CEO (Haufe-umantis) or run on sociocracy (oose eG).
· Hermann Arnold
Co-founder's candid list of painful lessons from self-organisation experiments.
· Handelsblatt
Interview with the Haufe-umantis co-founder on being voted out as boss by employees.
· Soziokratie Zentrum
Profile PDF with links to WiWo, Handelsblatt and Süddeutsche articles on electing bosses.
· Joost Minnaar / Pim de Morree et al.
Case on the Swiss software firm where staff vote for their CEO and managers.
· Anne M. Schüller
Results of decentralised firms: Buurtzorg's recovery rates, Haufe-umantis recruiting, Upstalsboom +93% revenue.
· Andreas Zeuch
Proposes a working definition of corporate democracy.
· Andreas Zeuch
Book page: interview-based cases of German democratic companies (Volksbank Heilbronn, Hoppmann, Haufe-umantis, Upstalsboom…).