2025/02/01 by Choon Hwee Koh · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Turkey's Politics and Society
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0020743825000133
openalex publication_date 2025/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Is Meta a more decentralized organization today than twenty years ago, when it was known as “Thefacebook”? Its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, certainly delegates a wider range of tasks to a wider range of intermediaries in 2024 compared to 2004. But Meta is also a far larger company today. Two decades ago, it was a small start-up; today, it is a multinational, publicly listed company. Given this organizational transformation, it would be odd to describe Meta as more decentralized today than “Thefacebook” twenty years ago without accounting for scale or giving more context. It is similarly odd when historians describe the Ottoman state as being more decentralized in the 18th century than in the 16th century. 1