The Virtual Company

摘要

So are the benefits of a virtual company imaginary, and not worth the effort? Of course not. As I mentioned earlier, cutting out inefficiencies and reducing costs have always been benefits of e-commerce (and don't hurt the bricks-and-mortar firms facing our current economic stasis). But achieving those goals through an as-yet untested legal structure unfortunately poses the risk of increased costs in dealing with those uncertainties. When existing business-organization laws allow firms to achieve those objectives easily, and with relatively little or no risk, using concepts that are well understood, and have withstood legal challenges, such uncertainty simply could create unnecessary expenses-in the real world, rather than in the virtual one.