This type of organization goes back centuries, even millenniums.
You say that the past decade saw this type of organization go out of fashion, but did it become extinct?
This type of organization facilitates both immediate understanding and later recall, as the neuroscientist Walter Kintsch pointed out back in 1968.
This type of organization, termed anascan (meaning without an ascus), permitted inflexion of the front wall to evert the lophophore but seemed to offer little protection.
This type of organization was established when advertising executives realized that fraudulent practices by some advertisers were bringing advertising into public disfavour.
Under this type of organization, which prevails to this day, each member holds a share of the profits within a democratically structured unit that allows for shared duties and responsibilities.
This type of organization became the model for other Liberal Party associations throughout the country; and, because it was a supposed imitation of the U.S. political machine, Benjamin Disraeli gave it the name "caucus".
In some countries they may also have some control over prices and production levels, but in those countries with strong antitrust legislation (e.g., the United States) this type of organization has been short-lived.
Meta-organizations may also employ workers and managers at a production site, but it is not the employment relationship as such which characterises this type of organization.
As this type of organization revealed a lot of inefficiencies (deficits, low quality, etc)., in the 1990s the European Commission decided to open the market to competition.
