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Most economic activity involves more than one Agent (where an Agent is an individual person or organization like a company or a cooperative). Many manufactured products include components made by different Agents.
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The Agents might be organized in a supply chain (usually an upside down tree with maybe several tiers of suppliers producing inputs to components made by the next tier and tier-by-tier arriving at a final product). Automobile manufacturing is organized like that. Valueflows evolved from some supply chain software conversations around the year 2000 (among other influences). See for example [REA, a semantic model for supply chain collaboration](http://mikorizal.org/REA_+A+Semantic+Model+for+Internet+Supply+Chain+Collaboration_2000.pdf).
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The Agents might be organized in a supply chain (usually an upside down tree with maybe several tiers of suppliers, producing inputs to components made by the next tier, and, tier-by-tier, arriving at a final product). Automobile manufacturing is organized like that. Valueflows evolved from some supply chain software conversations around the year 2000 (among other influences). See for example [REA, a semantic model for supply chain collaboration](http://mikorizal.org/REA_+A+Semantic+Model+for+Internet+Supply+Chain+Collaboration_2000.pdf).
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Other forms of economic networks include [economic ecosystems](https://www.academia.edu/10252910/The_uneasy_transition_from_supply_chains_to_ecosystems_The_value-creation_value-capture_dilemma), which don't necessarily have a "head" Agent like auto supply chains, and are organized in a loose network instead of a tree. Android phones are an example, where Google is a dominant Agent but not the only important one: Samsung probably sells more phones, and here's a list of [36 Android phone manufacturers](https://phandroid.com/manufacturers/).
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