New technologies are transforming the world of business. Transaction costs plummet.
Firms grow flatter.
Intermediaries and middle management disappear. Duguid's interest in collaborative, multidisciplinary work has led him to work at different times with anthropologists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. Luso-Americana paro o Desenvolvimento for investigations into the port wine firms of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. In addition to publishing articles and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review, his writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, management, organization theory, and wine history.