The economics of business enterprise: an introduction to economic organisation and the theory of the firm
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Harvester Wheatsheaf
1994
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| Physical Description: | XVI, 383 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0745008399 |
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Contents
Preface to the first edition xi
Preface to the second edition xv
Part one Basic concepts i
One The gains from trade 3
1. Production and the firm 3
2. Scarcity 4
3. The allocation problem 6
4. Recontracting and the allocation problem 10
5. Tatonnement 12
6. The equilibrium method 14
7. Institutions and information 16
8. Institutions and contract enforcement 18
9. Conclusion 24
Two Transactions costs 25
1. The process of exchange 25
2. Contracts and information 27
3. Institutional responses to transactions costs 35
4. Conclusion 45
Notes 47
Three The entrepreneur 49
1. Introduction 49
2. Contrasting views of the entrepreneur 50
3. The entrepreneur and the firm 72
Notes 76
Four Property rights 78
1. Introduction 78
2. Types of property rights 80
3. The development of property rights 85
4. Team production and the classical capitalist firm 90
5. Alternative structures of property rights 93
6. Property rights and managerial theories of the firm 102
Five Principal and agent 105
1. Introduction 105
2. Observability and the sharecropper '07
3. Risk sharing HO
4. Effort incentives "4
5. Information "8
6. Examples of incentive contracts '21
7. Monitoring the effort of team members '25
8. Incentive contracts and the firm 128
9. Conclusion 131
Notes 132
Part two The structure of economic
organisations I35
Six Hierarchies 137
1. Introduction '37
2. Piece rates and time rates '39
3. The role of the monitor '43
4. Wages, moral hazard and adverse selection 14"
5. The rank order tournament '52
6. Idiosyncratic exchange '5°
7. Rent seeking, entrepreneurship and opportunism 158
8. The firm as a governance structure 162
9. The Japanese firm 166
10. Conclusion 169
Notes 170
Seven Integration and the invisible hand 172
1. The variety of business enterprise 172
2. Strategy and structure 175
3. Visible and invisible hands 180
4. Integration, complexity and environmental uncertainty 185
5. Integration, moral hazard and adverse selection ^ 192
6. Integration and innovation I 202"\
7. Conclusion \2O\$J
Eight Corporate governance 1:
managerial incentives 210
1. Who controls the joint stock firm? 210
2. Four views of corporate control 212
3. Corporate governance as a principal agent problem 218
4. Managerial incentive contracts 220
5. Monitoring managers 229
6. The managerial labour market 237
7. The product market 240
8. Conclusion 243
Nine Corporate governance 2: the
takeover and capital structure 244
1. The entrepreneur and the takeover 244
2. The takeover and the free rider problem 245
3. Minority shareholders and the takeover 247
4. Hold up, breach of faith and the takeover 248
5. Adverse selection, short termism and the takeover 249
6. Moral hazard, monitoring costs and the takeover 252
7. The takeover and capital market efficiency 253
8. Defences against hostile takeovers 256
9. Do takeovers improve economic efficiency? 260
10. Capital structure and corporate governance 264
11. Corporate governance: bank versus market systems 269
12. Conclusion 274
Ten Profit sharing enterprise 276
1. Residual claims and enterprise governance 276
2. Profit sharing enterprises 279
3. The retail co operative 301
4. Conclusion 304
Eleven Non profit, charitable, and public
enterprise 306
1. The non profit enterprise 306
2. Governance problems and the non profit enterprise 308
3. The rationale of the non profit enterprise 310
4. Examples of non profit enterprise 314
5. Bureaucracy 323
6. Contracting out 325
7. Public enterprise 328
8. The regulated enterprise 332
9. Franchising and competitive bidding 333
10. Conclusion 335
Twelve Evolution and economic
organisation 336
1. The variety of theoretical approaches 336
2. The resources of the firm 339
3. Evolution in economics 341
4. Evolution and efficiency 346
5. Conclusion 348
Bibliography 350
Name index 373
Subject index 378 |
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