A large volume of research has documented the functionality of the form of organization. As noted in the introduction, we suspect that the impetus for this concern with the functionality of the network form was tique and challenge economic views of organization, as is made quite in the writings of Granovetter (1985) and Powell (1990). When explicitly linked to a critique, the primary objective was to show that at least under conditions, non market, non hierarchical forms or organization are functional.