If by purchaser you mean consumer (not producer), yes. Many types of org structures use hier-archical managaement, independent of the capital structure (legal s

If by purchaser you mean consumer (not producer), yes. Many types of org structures use hier-archical managaement, independent of the capital structure (legal strucure). That's my point. Even in the co-op space there are multiple structures that don't imply everything is flat-org.