The Economics of Organizational Design Theoretical Insights and Empi
This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management
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The Economics of Organizational Design Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence
Massimo G. Colombo Politecnico di Milano
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Marco Delmastro Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni
© Massimo G. Colombo and Marco Delmastro 2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-1-4039-8741-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-54139-3 ISBN 978-0-230-58220-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230582200
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To Elise, Emilia, Ludovica and Raffaella
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Contents List of Figures and Boxes
xii
List of Tables
xiii
List of Abbreviations
xvi
Acknowledgments
xviii
Preface
xx
Introduction: A New View of Organizational Design I.1 Preliminary issues in the study of the organization I.1.1 The concept of organization I.1.2 Unit of analysis I.2 An overview of a new approach to the study of organization I.2.1 The roots of the new approach I.2.1.1 Organization science I.2.1.2 Business history I.2.1.3 Management studies I.2.1.4 Economic theory I.2.2 A new approach to the study of organizational design I.3 The substance of the economics of organizational design I.3.1 Transaction cost economics I.3.2 The information processing stream I.3.3 The decentralization of incentive stream I.3.4 On the dynamics of organizational design 1 A New Quantitative Empirical Methodology for the Analysis of Organizational Design and Dynamics 1.
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