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This text documents an approach to explaining the existence of firms and markets, focusing on variability and co-ordination. It stands in contrast to the emphasis on transaction costs, and on monitoring and incentive structures, which are prominent in most of the modern literature in this field. This approach, called the variability approach, allows us to: show why both the need for communication and the co-ordination costs increase when the division of labour increases; explain why, while the firm relies on direction, the market does not; rigorously formulate the optimum divisionalization problem; better understand the relationship between technology and organization; show why the "size" of the firm is limited; and refine the analysis of whether the existence of a sharable input, or the presence of an external effect, leads to the emergence of a firm.

Table of Contents:
1: The Division of Labor and Communication.- 2: Variability and the Logic of Firms and Markets: Informal Analysis.- 3: The Internal Organization of Complex Teams: Bounded Rationality and the Logic of Hierarchies.- 4: Variability. Coordination, Information Structure, and the Logic of Firms and Markets.- 5: Variability and the Logic of Firms, Markets, and Other Arrangements.- 6: Adaptation Costs, Coordination Costs, and Optimal Firm Size.- 7: Indivisibilities: Economies of Scale, Scope, and Speed.- 8: The Variability Approach and the Multiproduct Firm.- 9: Concluding Remarks.- Names Index.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780792338321
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792338324
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 22 Theory and Decision Library A:


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