It's worth pointing out that in many countries small companies under governance models as the ones listed make up a large portion (or even the majority) of the

It's worth pointing out that in many countries small companies under governance models as the ones listed make up a large portion (or even the majority) of the overall GDP. For example in Germany the "Mittelstand" employ 63.7% of all employ and contribute 54,4% of the total economic activity (sorry not sure how that is defined exactly) [1]. So saying they don't work at scale is not quite correct I'd argue, things are definitely more complicated. [0] https://www.mittelstandsbund.de/themen/internationalisierung/themenschwerpunkt-mittelstand-in-europa/laenderinformationen/deutschland/ https://www.mittelstandsbund.de/themen/internationalisierung...