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The economics of organization and coordination : an introduction / Peter-J. Jost.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1848441894
  • 9781848441897
Other title:
  • Economics of organisation and coordination : an introduction
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.5024658 22
LOC classification:
  • HD
Contents:
Part I. Organizations and the Role of Coordination -- Part II. Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets to Hierarchies -- Part III. Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism -- --
Part I. Organizations and the Role of Coordination -- 1. Economic Organizations and their Architecture -- 2. The Analysis of the Coordination Problem -- -- Part II. Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets to Hierarchies -- 3. The Efficiency of Markets -- 4. The Analysis of Transactions -- -- Part III. Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism -- 5. Basic Forms of Hierarchical Coordination -- 6. Organizational Structures.
Summary: "This book provides a comprehensive economic approach for the analysis of organizational structure. It considers the parallels of coordination within firms, coordination between firms and market coordination and offers an economic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various instruments of coordination. Looking at examples in the practical world, it provides individual concepts and insights on an economic approach to organization."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Organizations and the Role of Coordination -- Part II. Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets to Hierarchies -- Part III. Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism -- --

Part I. Organizations and the Role of Coordination -- 1. Economic Organizations and their Architecture -- 2. The Analysis of the Coordination Problem -- -- Part II. Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets to Hierarchies -- 3. The Efficiency of Markets -- 4. The Analysis of Transactions -- -- Part III. Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism -- 5. Basic Forms of Hierarchical Coordination -- 6. Organizational Structures.

"This book provides a comprehensive economic approach for the analysis of organizational structure. It considers the parallels of coordination within firms, coordination between firms and market coordination and offers an economic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various instruments of coordination. Looking at examples in the practical world, it provides individual concepts and insights on an economic approach to organization."--Publisher's website.

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