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Current and superseded editions of Downloading a Company, retained here with their publication details and identifiers.

Cover of Downloading a Company, Second edition, revised and expanded

Second edition, revised and expanded

Downloading a Company

Current edition

The definitive English revision, with a worked transfer case, an explicit economic test, and expanded treatment of expertise, incentives, and governance.

Language
English
Published
21 September 2026
Paperback
146 pages
ISBN-13
979-12-986609-2-2
Cover of Scaricare un'azienda, Prima edizione italiana ampliata

Prima edizione italiana ampliata

Scaricare un'azienda

Current Italian edition

The expanded Italian edition, with Olivetti, World Class Manufacturing, the Università del Caffè, and Italy's industrial districts.

Language
Italiano
Published
17 August 2026
Paperback
210 pages
ISBN-13
979-12-986609-1-5
Cover of Downloading a Company, First edition

First edition

Downloading a Company

Superseded 21 September 2026

The original English edition. Its Kindle and paperback formats were withdrawn when the revised and expanded second edition was published.

Language
English
Published
30 July 2026
Paperback
170 pages
ISBN-13
979-12-986609-0-8
Paperback ASIN B0HC7MR268 Kindle ASIN B0GX32LDT6
First-edition contents
  1. Downloading a Company
  2. The Company as a Thinking System
  3. Where Institutional Knowledge Actually Lives
  4. The Hidden Fragility of Institutional Memory
  5. Why Software Could Not Encode Organizational Judgment
  6. From Models to Organizational Semantics
  7. The Company Graph: How Knowledge Graphs Capture Company Judgment
  8. When AI Models Absorb Company Judgment
  9. Encoding Institutional Judgment
  10. The Company's Worldview Becomes Executable
  11. Maintaining Institutional Coherence
  12. When Organizational Memory Becomes Machine-Readable
  13. The Myth of Irreducible Tacit Knowledge
  14. Replication Without Expansion
  15. The Transferability of Institutional Cognition
  16. Firms Become Containers of Cognition
  17. Replication Creates Markets for Reasoning
  18. Strategic Advantage Moves to Coherence
  19. Governance of Machine Institutions
  20. The Downloadable Organization