Industrial organization : minds, bodies, and epidemics
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Industrial organization : minds, bodies, and epidemics
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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"This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG ... Cham, Switzerland"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book takes the reader on a new tour of the world of firms. We start with a visit to the inside of a firm. We meet the owner and the manager. We look deeply into their mindsets. Then we move outside the firm, to observe the firm's outer features. We pay particular attention to its size, its complexity, its fragility, and its similarity to other firms. In the second half of the tour, we visit communities of firms. We watch waves of mergers, chaos, and bubbles. Before returning, we witness battles between firms and creatures that act like antibodies in our blood: corporate raiders, antitrust agencies, and creative destructors. Throughout the tour, we ask how the things we see are linked. This book encourages the reader to see them as feedback loops. The book's overarching argument is the importance of the separation of ownership and control and how society must pay more attention to the concept..
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionPart I The Minds of the Firm
2. Two Minds3. The Owner's Mind4. The Manager's MindPart II The Firm's Body5. Too Big6. Too Complex7. Too Fragile8. Too SimilarPart III Epidemics9. Waves10. Bubbles11. ChaosPart IV Antibodies12. Raiders13. Trustbusters14. Creative Destructors
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