Economic Approaches to Organizations

by Prof Hein Schreuder (Author), Prof Sytse Douma (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2002

  $3.88

  This text assumes no prior knowledge of economics and is ideally suited to one or two semester courses in managerial economics and related courses in business, organization or management. The focus of this unique text is on the importance of economic issues and developments in the study of organizations and management. This is one of only a few books to take this approach.The text explains in a non-technical way, the behavioural theory of the firm, agency theory, transaction cost economics and recent economic contributions to strategic management and evolutionary theory. The third edition of this highly successful and well established text has been thoroughly updated, with a new improved design and layout and a stronger coverage of the Internet whilst retaining its hallmark student friendly, step-by-step approach.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $5.50

  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.