Changes in the Market Structure of the Illinois Elevator Industry, 1971-1980
Author: P. Garcia
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 10
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Author: P. Garcia
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Agricultural Experiment Station
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 192
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Agricultural Economics
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Xerox University Microfilms
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 814
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 808
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard R. Nelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1985-10-15
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780674041431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ineffective in the analysis of technological innovation and the dynamics of competition among firms. To replace these assumptions, they borrow from biology the concept of natural selection to construct a precise and detailed evolutionary theory of business behavior. They grant that films are motivated by profit and engage in search for ways of improving profits, but they do not consider them to be profit maximizing. Likewise, they emphasize the tendency for the more profitable firms to drive the less profitable ones out of business, but they do not focus their analysis on hypothetical states of industry equilibrium. The results of their new paradigm and analytical framework are impressive. Not only have they been able to develop more coherent and powerful models of competitive firm dynamics under conditions of growth and technological change, but their approach is compatible with findings in psychology and other social sciences. Finally, their work has important implications for welfare economics and for government policy toward industry.
Author: Henry Mintzberg
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Published: 2009
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynthesizes the empirical literature on organizationalstructuring to answer the question of how organizations structure themselves --how they resolve needed coordination and division of labor. Organizationalstructuring is defined as the sum total of the ways in which an organizationdivides and coordinates its labor into distinct tasks. Further analysis of theresearch literature is neededin order to builda conceptualframework that will fill in the significant gap left by not connecting adescription of structure to its context: how an organization actuallyfunctions. The results of the synthesis are five basic configurations (the SimpleStructure, the Machine Bureaucracy, the Professional Bureaucracy, theDivisionalized Form, and the Adhocracy) that serve as the fundamental elementsof structure in an organization. Five basic parts of the contemporaryorganization (the operating core, the strategic apex, the middle line, thetechnostructure, and the support staff), and five theories of how it functions(i.e., as a system characterized by formal authority, regulated flows, informalcommunication, work constellations, and ad hoc decision processes) aretheorized. Organizations function in complex and varying ways, due to differing flows -including flows of authority, work material, information, and decisionprocesses. These flows depend on the age, size, and environment of theorganization; additionally, technology plays a key role because of itsimportance in structuring the operating core. Finally, design parameters aredescribed - based on the above five basic parts and five theories - that areused as a means of coordination and division of labor in designingorganizational structures, in order to establish stable patterns of behavior.(CJC).