The Handbook of Organizational Economics / / ed. by John Roberts, Robert S. Gibbons.

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• MitwirkendeR: Azoulay, Pierre,; Baker, George P.,; Banerjee, Abhijit,; Baron, James N.,; Bolton, Patrick,; Bresnahan, Timothy,; Brynjolfsson, Erik,; Camerer, Colin F.,; Dewatripont, Mathias,; Garicano, Luis,; Gertner, Robert,; Gibbons, Robert,; Gil, Ricard,; Hanna, Rema,; Hansmann, Henry,; Henderson, Rebecca,; Hermalin, Benjamin E.,; Ichniowski, Casey,; Kornhauser, Lewis A.,; Kreps, David M.,; Lafontaine, Francine,; Lazear, Edward P.,; Lerner, Josh,; Levin, Jonathan,; MacLeod, W. Bentley,; Malcomson, James M.,; Matouschek, Niko,; Milgrom, Paul,; Moe, Terry M.,; Mookherjee, Dilip,; Mullainathan, Sendhil,; Ménard, Claude,; Oyer, Paul,; Roberts, John,; Saloner, Garth,; Scharfstein, David,; Segal, Ilya,; Shaw, Kathryn,; Slade, Margaret E.,; Tadelis, Steven,; Van Zandt, Timothy,; Waldman, Michael,; Weber, Roberto A.,; Whinston, Michael D.,; Williamson, Oliver E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gibbons, Robert S.,; Roberts, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1248 p.) :; 39 line illus. 21 tables.

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. This landmar...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I. Foundations
• 1. Complementarity in Organizations
• 2. Economic Theories of Incentives in Organizations
• 3. Property Rights
• 4. Transaction Cost Economics
• Part II. Methods
• 5. Clinical Papers in Organizational Economics
• 6. Experimental Organizational Economics
• 7. Insider Econometrics
• Part III. Within Firms: Individuals and Groups
• 8. Employment as an Economic and a Social Relationship
• 9. Authority in Organizations
• 10. Decisions in Organizations
• 11. Leadership and Corporate Culture
• 12. Personnel Economics
• 13. Theory and Evidence in Internal Labor Markets
• Part IV. Within Firms: Structures and Processes
• 14. Technological Innovation and Organizations
• 15. Hierarchies and the Division of Labor
• 16. Internal Capital Markets
• 17. What Do Managers Do?
• 18. Corporate Governance
• 19. Incentives in Hierarchies
• 20. Strategy and Organization
• Part V. Between Firms
• 21. Vertical Integration and Market Structure
• 22. Ownership and Organizational Form
• 23. Contracts between Legal Persons
• 24. Inter-Firm Contracts
• 25. Relational Incentive Contracts
• 26. Hybrid Modes of Organization
• Part VI. Beyond Firms
• 27. Corruption
• 28. Delegation, Control, and the Study of Public Bureaucracy
• Name Index
• Subject Index