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Making the parallelism of firms as federations (not sure if is a correct assumption), this can surely relate with Proudhon's ideas about federations and confederations: http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#7
Someone that is somehow renegade is Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. And it's quite possible that his thought is way better fitted here.
Of course, he's another non-authority thinker but with a quite different perspective and way to think the world, the society and men.
Take some of your time at gutenberg.org: - What is Property? by P.-J. Proudhon http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/360 - System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. Proudhon http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/444