Economic approaches to organizations

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Economic approaches to organizations

Sytse Douma and Hein Schreuder

Prentice Hall International, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The aim of this book is to provide an economically based analysis of organizations. It provides a broad overview of economic approaches to orgainzations, and illustrates the application of these approaches to organizational problems. broadly speaking, technical expositions are omitted in favour of discussions of the basic concepts involved. The book starts by comparing organizations and markets, and explores the ways inwhich they affect each other's structure and performance. The book also provides an introduction to five diffent economic approaches to organizations: behavioural theory; agency theory; transaction-cost economics; the economic theory of strategic management; and the evolutionary approach to organizations.

Table of Contents

  • Markets and organizations
  • information
  • the behavioural theory of the firm
  • agency theory
  • transaction cost economics
  • economic contributions to strategic management
  • evolutionary approaches to organizations
  • all in the family.

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  • NCID
    BA13477043
  • ISBN
    • 0132247348
  • LCCN
    91014623
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Hertfordshire [England]
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 185 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
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