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"This book draws together themes in business model developments in relation to business networks and platforms, decentralized business models (DBMs), sometimes referred to as the 'sharing' economy', to systematically analyse the challenges to corporate and organizational law, and governance. DBMS include business networks, the global supply chain, public-private partnerships, the platform economy and blockchain-based enterprises. The law of organizational forms and governance has been slow in responding to changes and reliance has been placed on innovations in contract law to support the business model developments. The authors argue that the law of organisations and governance can respond to changes in the phenomenon of decentralised business models driven by transformative technology and new socio-economic dynamics. They argue that principles underlying the law of organisations and governance, such as corporate governance, are crucial to constituting, facilitating and enabling reciprocality, mutuality, governance and redress in relation to these business models, whose creation of wealth neither fully subscribes to a firm or market system, is neither hierarchical or totally decentralized, and incorporates socio-economic elements that are often enmeshed with incentives and relations. Of interest to academics, policy-makers and legal practitioners, this book offers proposals for new thinking in the law of organization and governance to advance the possibilities of a new socio-economic future"--