Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms

Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms
Author: Neil Garston
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9401113963

The study of bureaucracy must include certain key questions: what are bureaucrats and bureaucracies; why do they exist and what are their functions; how do they behave; how much power do they possess; what is their impact on efficiency and production; and how do they affect society? This book contains analyses of all these issues, done by a variety of economists of differing backgrounds, approaches and opinions, broadly categorized under the labels Neoclassical, Institutionalist, and Marxist, although there are overlaps and correspondences that cross ideological and/or paradigmal boundaries. In this book the labels are employed as a guide to the reader with a preference for one approach over the others, and as an indication of how chapters in different sections are related in their approaches.

Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies

Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies
Author: Anna Meyendorff
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262133913

This collection examines the design of financial systems for central and eastern European countries engaged in the transition to market-based economies. It highlights the need for better approaches to measuring performance and providing incentives in banking and for financial mechanisms to encourage private-sector growth. Written by leading European and North American scholars, the essays apply modern finance theory and empirical data to the development of new financial sectors.

The Theory of the Firm

The Theory of the Firm
Author: Daniel F. Spulber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2009-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521517389

The Theory of the Firm presents an innovative general analysis of the economics of the firm.

Economics of Strategy

Economics of Strategy
Author: David Besanko
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

'The Economics of Strategy' delves into the concepts involved in sound business strategy. The text begins by focusing on the boundaries of the firm and examines the competitive strategy from the perspective of industrial organization economics. It then explores strategic positioning and dynamics.

The Handbook of Organizational Economics

The Handbook of Organizational Economics
Author: Robert Gibbons
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 1248
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691132798

(E-book available via MyiLibrary) In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational economics seeks to understand the nature and workings of such organizations and their impact on economic performance. The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays the breadth of topics in organizational economics, including the roles of individuals and groups in organizations, organizational structures and processes, the boundaries of the firm, contracts between and within firms, and more.

Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement

Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement
Author: Rolf Färe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387476776

This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists. Included are new results concerning aggregation of technical efficiency, sources of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing, intellectual property rights, and the determinants of successful mergers.

Internal Pricing

Internal Pricing
Author: Tim Baldenius
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1601982704

Internal Pricing surveys of the transfer pricing literature with a focus on commonly-used pricing schemes using incomplete contracting models. Chapter 2 develops the basic symmetric information model to compare the performance of cost-based and negotiated pricing in the absence of external input markets. Chapter 3 considers market-based pricing and the role of internal price adjustments; it ignores investments and focuses solely on trading incentives. Chapter 4 adds investments to the model of Chapter 3 and shows that investment opportunities further strengthen the case for internal adjustments. Chapter 5 reconsiders the initial analysis of Chapter 2 for the case of asymmetrically informed divisional managers. The book ends with the author's conclusions and an appendix including the mathematical proofs. A key theme running through Internal Pricing is that the firm's central office (i.e headquarters) plays a rather limited role in mediating individual transactions. This captures the stylized empirical fact that in most firms, headquarters designs the broad "rules of the game" by choosing a pricing mechanism and compensation contracts, but usually does not get involved in pricing on a product-by-product basis.