capitalism, the various forms of organizations have remained within the asymmetry generating and sub-optimal design parameters. The engagement of the traditional firms to seek advantages of asymmetries through these variables has been argued to be at the root of growing un-sustainability.
Based on the understanding of the asymmetry generating characteristics of firm architecture, Section 2 discusses the questions of optimal design of firm for sustainability. While recognizing that the optimal positions of the design variables would change for a given community, its ecology, nature of industry and technology; this section raises several issues of research on size, scope, technology, ownership, and management from the sustainability perspective. Section 3 presents an on-going action research in an Indian rural-agricultural setting, where the attempt has
been to identify the optimal positions of the key design variables for achieving a sustainable community enterprise system. Based on the experiences of the action research, the paper suggests that for a marginal producer based enterprise system to be sustainable, the enterprise system needs to be community based, community paced, community owned and managed by the farmers/producers and operated by local professionals or community workers.