http://www.value-networks.com/Articles/Benchmarking-Golden-OS.pdf

In a courageous effort to examine patterns in value networks, Oliver Schwabe analyzes the benchmarking database for key indicators of value networks to determine correlations between value network proportions and the Golden Proportion. Although results are inconclusive, the results show that the Golden Proportion could be used as an indicator of the degree of self-organization in value networks.