Employees and entrepreneurship: co-ordination and spontaneity in non-hierarchical business organizations
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Contents
Series
editor's foreword by Peter Boettke
vii
Foreword by Frederic
Sautet ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Introduction
1
Understanding decentralization developments
4
The pros and cons of decentralization
8
Modern economic theory of the firm and decentralization
15
Outline of the book
16
2.
The hierarchical theory of the firm
20
Coase
's
theory of the firm
21
Williamson's continued development of the Coasian
research program
24
3.
The knowledge problem in firms
42
The institutional taxonomy
45
The knowledge problem in firms
51
Decentralized decision-making through hierarchical
flattening
59
The organizational tradeoff between co-ordination and
innovation
68
Foss's critique of intra-firm decentralization
72
Seeking creativity within firms
85
Conclusion
87
4.
Spontaneous order in decentralized firms
92
What motivates employees?
93
Spontaneous order within decentralized firms
103
Conclusion
109
5.
Employees as creative agents
114
Entrepreneurship
and creativity
114
The process of entrepreneurial decision-making and
judgment derivation
116
Creativity and imagination
119
Creativity, judgment and delegation
121
Conclusion
123
vi
Contents
6.
Conclusion
127
Bibliography
132
Index
139
Employees and
Entrepreneurship
Over the last few decades, there has been a great deal ot' management
literature recommending the removal of firms' hierarchies and the
empowerment of employees. Ivan Pongracic, jr. examines these themes
through the lenses of the economic theory of the firm. Balancing the tendency
for management literature to overlook basic costs and trade-offs of
decentralization, and the rigidity at economics that hinders an appreciation
for the real world phenomenon of decentralization, this book arrives at a
realistic middle ground between the two extremes. The dance between
hierarchy and employee empowerment exists in even the most hierarchical
firms, and this book explores this often-overlooked dynamic.
The decentralization of decision-making and flattening of managerial
hierarchies within business firms can best be understood as a response to
situations where employees hold knowledge that is superior to that held by
firms'owners and managers. Decentralizing decision-making in those
circumstances allows firms to utilize their employees' superior personal
knowledge, often by encouraging them to act in creative, entrepreneurial
ways, while requiring some reliance on intra-firm spontaneous order
processes to co-ordinate the activities of the employees. This book adds an
important component to the standard economic theory of the firm by
exploring the implications of intra-firm knowledge dispersion. It also explains
how firms engage in a process of continuing experimentation to create an
organizational structure that fosters employee creativity and
entrepreneurship.
Scholars in economics,
entrepreneurship,
organizational studies and
management will find this book a fascinating exploration of firm behavior.
Ivan Pongracic, Jr. is Associate Professor or Economics and the William E.
Hibbs/Luclwig
von
Mises
Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College, USA. |
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