The economics of organization and coordination: an introduction
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Autor: Jost, Peter-Jürgen
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Contents
Preface ix
List of Figures xiii
I Organizations and the Role of Coordination 1
1 Economic Organizations and their Architecture 3
1.1 Economic Organizations and Value Creation............ 4
1.1.1 Division of Labor and the Process of Value Creation ... 5
1.1.2 Exchange and the Value Created by an Organization ... 7
1.1.3 Value Creation and the Distribution of Values....... 9
1.2 The Design of Economic Organizations............... 11
1.2.1 Organizational Strategy and Architecture......... 11
1.2.2 The Organization and its Environment........... 13
1.2.3 The Organization Problem ................. 15
1.2.4 The Units of Analysis.................... 17
1.3 Further Reading ........................... 21
2 The Analysis of the Coordination Problem 23
2.1 The Organization as a Decision-Making System.......... 24
2.1.1 Interdependent Decisions .................. 25
2.1.2 Strategic Decisions...................... 28
2.2 Coordination of Economic Activities................ 31
2.2.1 Alternative Mechanisms of Coordination.......... 33
2.2.2 Interdependence and Coordination............. 36
2.2.3 Information and Coordination................ 38
2.2.4 The Economic Analysis of the Coordination Problem ... 42
2.3 Two Case Studies........................... 44
2.3.1 The Multi-Divisional Organizational Structure of
General Motors........................ 45
2.3.2 Toyota s Just-in-Time Production System........ 47
2.4 Further Reading........................... 51
II Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets
to Hierarchies 53
3 The Efficiency of Markets 55
3.1 The Price Mechanism as an Instrument of Coordination and Mo-
tivation ................................ 56
3.1.1 Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium......... 58
3.1.2 The Neoclassical Theory of the Firm............ 65
3.1.3 General Equilibrium Theory: Coordinating Individual Ac-
tivities ............................. 75
3.1.4 The Role of the Firm in Neoclassical Economics ..... 79
3.2 Market Failure............................ 81
3.2.1 Market Power......................... 82
3.2.2 Lack of Market Transparency................ 85
3.2.3 Missing Markets....................... 89
3.3 Government Intervention and the Coase Theorem......... 92
3.3.1 Government Policy and the Coordination of Market Ac-
tivities ............................. 93
3.3.2 Government Enforcement and the Motivation of Market
Actors............................. 98
3.3.3 The Process of Policy Making................ 100
3.3.4 Coordination through Negotiations - The Coase Theorem 103
3.4 Further Reading ........................... 107
4 The Analysis of Transactions 109
4.1 Transaction Costs .......................... Ill
4.1.1 The Structure of Transaction Costs............. 112
4.1.2 Transaction Costs and Their Role for the Organization . . 116
4.1.3 The Efficiency of Organizations and the Interdependency
of Technology and Transaction Costs............ 121
4.1.4 The Influence of Transaction Characteristics........ 125
4.2 The Coordination of Inter-Organizational Cooperation...... 130
4.2.1 Advantages of Value Creation in Inter-Organizational Co-
operations ........................... 132
4.2.2 Relational Contracting as a Basis for Inter-Organizational
Cooperation.......................... 137
4.2.3 The Design of Inter-Organizational Cooperations as an
Organization Problem.................... 142
4.2.4 Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Coordination
Mechanisms.......................... 144
4.2.5 The Effects of Transaction Characteristics and
Technology on Inter-Organizational Cooperation..... 152
4.2.6 Forms of Inter-Organizational Cooperations........ 164
4.3 Further Reading ........................... 171
Ill Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism
5 Basic Forms of Hierarchical Coordination 177
5.1 Designing the Hierarchical System of Decision-Making...... 179
5.1.1 Decomposition of Organizational Value Creation..... 185
5.1.2 Enlargement and Horizontal Differentiation........ 189
5.1.3 Empowerment and Vertical Differentiation......... 197
5.1.4 Job Design and Organizational Differentiation....... 204
5.2 The Design of Vertical and Lateral Coordination......... 214
5.2.1 Instruments of Vertical Coordination............ 216
5.2.2 Instruments of Lateral Coordination............ 222
5.2.3 Departmental Design and Organizational Differentiation . 238
5.2.4 The Design of the Command System............ 251
5.2.5 The Design of the Planning System ............ 254
5.2.6 The Design of the Information and Communication
System ............................ 262
5.3 The Characteristics of Tasks and their Effects on Organizational
Design................................. 269
5.3.1 Specificity of Investments.................. 270
5.3.2 Uncertainty Linked to the Task............... 272
5.3.3 Frequency of the Task.................... 277
5.3.4 Measurability of Value Created............... 279
5.3.5 Interdependencies with Other Tasks............ 280
5.3.6 Technology of the Task ................... 282
5.4 Further Reading........................... 288
6 Organizational Structures 293
6.1 The Primary Organizational Structures Designed to Coordinate
Permanent Tasks........................... 296
6.1.1 The Organization of the Management Board ....... 297
6.1.2 The Functional Structure.................. 300
6.1.3 The Business Process Structure............... 304
6.1.4 Alternative Basic Structures Between the Business Process-
and Functional Structure.................. 308
6.1.5 The Multi-Divisional Structure............... 311
6.1.6 Alternative Basic Structures Between the Multi-Divisional
and Functional Structure.................. 316
6.1.7 Group Structure....................... 322
6.2 The Secondary Organizational Structures Designed to Coordi-
nate Innovative Tasks ........................ 325
6.2.1 The Organization of Projects................ 328
6.2.2 The Organization of Strategic Planning.......... 335
6.3 Further Reading ........................... 339
Notes 341
Bibliography 351
Index 371
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