Hein Schreuder, Sytse Douma

Economic Approaches to Organizations

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Produktbeschreibung

This text explains in a non-technical way different economic approaches (including game theory, agency theory, transaction costs economics, economics of strategy and evolutionary approaches) using practical real-world examples to aid understanding of how the concepts relate to economic and organizational problems in the world today. This book is unique in the market in its attempt to make the link between management and economics. This text straddles the disciplines of management and economics. The original conceptual framework developed by the authors and used to structure the text is a large attraction for lecturers of management and organisational studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9781292128900
• ISBN-10: 1292128909
• Artikelnr.: 48934150

Autorenporträt

Sytse Douma is professor of business administration at Tilburg University. Hein Schreuder was executive vice president of corporate strategy and acquistitions at Royal DSM N.V. until 2012. He is honorary professor of business economics at Maastricht University and board member of the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface xi
* Acknowledgements xv
Part I Foundations
1. Markets and organizations
* 1.1 The economic problem
* 1.2 The division of labour
* 1.3 Specialization
* 1.4 Coordination
* 1.5 Markets and organizations
* 1.6 Information
* 1.7 The environment and institutions
* 1.8 Historical perspective
* 1.9 Summary: the conceptual framework of this book
* 1.10 Outline of the book
* Questions
* Notes
2. Markets
* 2.1 Introduction
* 2.2 Market interaction: analysis of demand and supply
* 2.3 Decision-making by consumers
* 2.4 Decision-making by producers
* 2.5 Market coordination
* 2.6 The paradox of profits
* 2.7 Competitive markets
* 2.8 The main assumptions underlying standard microeconomic theory
* 2.9 Summary: how according to standard microeconomic theory decisions
are coordinated by the market
* Questions
3. Organizations
* 3.1 The world of organizations
* 3.2 Organizational coordination
* 3.3 Types of organizations
* 3.4 Organizational markets
* 3.5 Organized markets
* 3.6 The rise of the Internet and the digitization of organizations
* 3.7 Digital platforms: a new coordination mechanism
* 3.8 The Platform Organization
* 3.9 Summary: how organizations achieve coordination
* Questions
* Notes
4. Information
* 4.1 Coordination and information
* 4.2 Hidden information
* 4.3 Hidden action
* 4.4 The value of information
* 4.5 Information as an economic good
* 4.6 Summary: information problems for markets and organizations
* Questions
* Notes
5. Game theory
* 5.1 Introduction
* 5.2 The prisoner's dilemma
* 5.3 Coordination games
* 5.4 The entry game
* 5.5 The iterated prisoner's dilemma
* 5.6 Auctions
* 5.7 Evolutionary game theory
* 5.8 Summary: insights from game theory
* Questions
6. Econs and Humans
* 6.1 Introduction
* 6.2 The social domain versus the economic domain
* 6.3 Economic, social and moral man: bounds on self-interest
* 6.4 Bounds on rationality
* 6.5 Prospect theory
* 6.6 Summary: behavioural economics
* Questions
Part II Economic Approaches
7. Behavioural theory of the firm
* 7.1 Introduction
* 7.2 The firm as a coalition of participants
* 7.3 Organizational goals
* 7.4 Organizational expectations
* 7.5 Organizational choice
* 7.6 From bounded rationality to behavioural economics
* 7.7 Summary: goals and decision-making within the firm in behavioural
theory
* Questions
* Notes
8. Agency theory
* 8.1 Introduction
* 8.2 Separation of ownership and control
* 8.3 Managerial behaviour and ownership structure
* 8.4 Entrepreneurial firms and team production
* 8.5 The firm as a nexus of contracts
* 8.6 Theory of principal and agent
* 8.7 Applying agency theory
* 8.8 Summary: agency relations between owners, managers and employees
* Questions
* Notes
9. Transaction cost economics
* 9.1 Introduction
* 9.2 Behavioural assumptions: bounded rationality and opportunism
* 9.3 Dimensions of transactions
* 9.4 Peer groups
* 9.5 Simple hierarchies
* 9.6 Multistage hierarchies: U-form and M-form enterprises
* 9.7 Organizational markets
* 9.8 Digitization and transaction costs
* 9.9 Markets and organizations: are these all there is?
* 9.10 Governance in a three-level schema
* 9.11 Summary: effect of transaction costs on choosing between markets
and organizations and organizational forms
* Questions
* Notes
10. Economic Contributions to business/competitive strategy
* 10.1 Introduction
* 10.2 Industry analysis
* 10.3 Competitor analysis
* 10.4 Competitive strategy
* 10.5 Resource-based view of the firm
* 10.6 Dynamic capabilities
* 10.7 Move and counter move
* 10.8Summary: how economic analysis can contribute to the formulation
of competitive strategies
* Questions
* Notes
11. Economic contributions to corporate strategy
* 11.1 Introduction
* 11.2 Unrelated diversification
* 11.3 Related diversification
* 11.4 Horizontal multi-nationalization
* 11.5 Vertical integration
* 11.6 Summary
* Questions
* Notes
12. Evolutionary approaches to organizations
* 12.1 Introduction
* 12.2 Giraffes
* 12.3 Organizations and giraffes
* 12.4 Organizational ecology
* 12.5 An evolutionary theory of economic change
* 12.6 Comparison
* 12.7 The evolution of dynamic capabilities
* 12.8 Further developments
* 12.9 Summary: the evolutionary perspective
* Questions
* Notes
13. All in the family
* 13.1 Introduction
* 13.2 The basic conceptual framework
* 13.3 Family resemblances
* 13.4 Family differences
* 13.5 Summary: all in the family?
* 13.6 Organizations as complex, adaptive systems
* Questions
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index