Organisation is a technology choice. Whether it is political, social or economic organisation. Normally the most efficient form of organisation is chosen to serve a particular purpose. Capital intensive industries tend to adopt heavily centralised structures to support their operations. Commoditised industries can support decentralised structures.
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The market and democratic systems enable disruptive technologies and systems to challenge the established order and, if it is good enough, entirely replace it. As a recent example the iPod and Bose speakers had totally replaced the old metre high speakers with CD, turntable, radio, cassette type stereo system. Bureaucracy is a different animal though.
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