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FIRMS, ORGANIZATIONS AND CONTRACTS
A READER IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION |
| By: |
Peter J. Buckley (Editor), Jonathan Michie (Editor), Ronald Coase (Foreword) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198774362 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198774365 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 August, 1996 |
| Series: |
Oxford Management Readers |
| Pages: |
488 |
| Description: |
This reader brings the key articles and debates on these issues for students of business, economics and organization. The idea of the firm being based on a set of internal and external contracts is increasingly common. For many it offers more than the binary concepts of market and hierarchy. Outsourcing, subcontracting, networks and supplier relationships are all examples. This interdisciplinary Reader brings together the classic articles on these issues, and will bean invaluable tool for teachers and students of business, economic and management. The editors' Introduction provides an accessible overview, and Nobel prizewinner Ronald Coase contributes a foreword. |
| Synopsis: |
What is a firm? Why do firms exist? How is production and administration best co-ordinated? What are the reasons for vertical integration? And disintegration? Is there a conflict between establishing and developing long-term relationships on the one hand, and the operation of free market competition on the other? Is there a choice between markets and hierarchies? What about networks and clans? These questions continue to be explored with economics, management, sociology and other related disciplines. Firms, Organizations and Contracts brings together the best inter-disciplinary analysis of the topic, and contains classic contributions and material not normally seen by those outside their own particular disciplines. It combines pioneer articles with more recent discussions of an area attracting growing attention amongst those studying industrial organization - whether on courses in economics, management, strategy, organization, law or public administration.The volume includes Coase's initial enquiry into 'The Nature of the Firm' and Ouchi's analysis of 'Markets, bureaucracies and clans'; Kaldor's questioning of 'The Nature of the Firm' and Dore's discussion of 'Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism'. This book will be an invaluable tool for students in economics, management and sociology. In view of the growing use of contracts within the public sector, and within the private regulated sector, the book also sets out some of the key issues of concern to policy makers and public sector strategists. |
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| Publication: |
UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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