W7171659809 Working papers AI × management and organizations

The Rise of the Agent Economy: Autonomous Agent Organizations as a New Form of Economic Infrastructure

Lennart Ante · Tim Alvaro Ockenga

Also recorded as: doi:10.2139/ssrn.7093719 · ssrn:7093719

ssrn abstract page · 2026-07-14

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Using the Virtuals Protocol as its stated case, the abstract defines Autonomous Agent Organizations as a DAO subclass characterized by greater economic autonomy and composable inter-agent collaboration, linking tokenized ownership, decentralized governance, and standardized coordination to organization across firm, market, and platform boundaries.

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