The consortium is a temporary union of independent companies whose purpose may be their coordinated business activities. The most often such a union is created for joint activities in geting orders and their joint execution.
The company should be large and have a complex structure to perform a large number of diverse operations for the development, production, and delivery of a complex product to the customers.
The company should be small and have a simple structure in order to:
Ivanova T., Prikhodko V. Theory of Organization. M: Knorus, 2010.