Firm, Organization, Economics, and Accounting （Liuxj）: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

cv: Chandler, Alfred DuPont, Jr., 1918 – 2007

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Chandler,_Jr.

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History. He taught at M.I.T. and Johns Hopkins University before arriving at Harvard Business School in 1970.

Alfred Chandler, business historian
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9184105

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSOR ALFRED D. CHANDLER, JR., PREEMINENT BUSINESS HISTORIAN, DEAD AT 88
http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/051107_chandler.html

orgtheory.net
alfred chandler
http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/alfred-chandler/

On Alfred Chandler Jnr.
http://bradhinton.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/on-alfred-chandler-jnr/

Concise Summary of Chandler’s Achievements
http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/06/04/concise-summary-of-chandlers-achievements/

orgtheory.net
fligstein on chandler
http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/fligstein-on-chandler/

Symposium on Alfred Chandler
http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/01/23/symposium-on-alfred-chandler/

cv: Jensen, Michael, 1939

Michael Cole "Mike" Jensen (born November 30, 1939)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jensen

Michael Cole "Mike" Jensen (born November 30, 1939) is an American economist working in the area of financial economics. He is currently the managing director in charge of organizational strategy at Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm, and the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard University.

cv: Baker, George P.

George P. Baker

George P. Baker was the fifth dean of the Harvard Business School [1].

cv: Hamel, Gary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hamel

Gary Hamel, a graduate of Andrews University (1975) and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1990[2]) is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago, and a visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School. He is the originator (with C. K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a nonprofit research foundation based in Woodside, California.
He was formerly a Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of Michigan (PhD 1990) and at Harvard Business School. His academic standing took a dent soon after publication of the hardback version of Leading the Revolution, in which he had written a very positive profile of Enron.
Following the strong reception of Leading the Revolution, Hamel began work on resilience in business strategy. He wrote of the concept in a 2003 Harvard Business Review article entitled "The Quest for Resilience"

cv: Kaplan, Robert S., 1940

Robert S. Kaplan (born 1940)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Kaplan

Robert S. Kaplan (born 1940) is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together with David P. Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current actions to its long-term goals. Kaplan and Norton introduced the balanced scorecard method in their 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance. This method has been endorsed by corporate heavyweights such as Mobil and Sears. The balanced scorecard envisages executives as pilots with a range of controls and indicators in front of them, based upon which they make decisions and develop strategies. He has also published extensively in the fields of strategy, cost accounting and management accounting. Prior to Harvard, Kaplan was on the faculty and was Dean of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2006, Kaplan received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.
Also in 2006, Kaplan was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame.

cv: Nolan, Richard L.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Nolan

Richard L. Nolan is an American business school professor. He has held various positions, including the Philip Condit Chair of Management at University of Washington and the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration emeritus at Harvard Business School. A founder of consulting firm Nolan, Norton & Co. (acquired by KPMG), he contributed a great deal to the thinking on the role of IT (Information Technology) in transforming organisations and markets. He was conferred a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Washington, although little of his work involves formal mathematical modeling.
Professor Nolan pioneered research and thinking on the topic of large scale IT management, authoring some of the earliest systematic treatments of this topic (e.g. [1]), which articulated the first application of a staged maturity model — the Stages-of-growth model — to the stages of growth of enterprise IT.[2]
This model is sometimes incorrectly confused with the much later process capability maturity model - the CMM, which was defined approx. 10 years later by Watts Humphrey in his Capability Maturity Model [3]. Professor Nolan also collaborated with F. Warren McFarlan on a number of influential papers.
His 1995 Harvard Business School press book Creative Destruction: A Six-Stage Process for Transforming the Organization (with David C. Croson) heralded many of the organizational issues of the Internet age and sold over 15,000 copies in six languages.

cv: Levitt, Theodore , 1925 – 2006

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925, Vollmerz, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Germany – June 28, 2006, Belmont, Massachusetts)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Levitt

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925, Vollmerz, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Germany – June 28, 2006, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. He was also editor of the Harvard Business Review and an editor who was especially noted for increasing the Review's circulation and for coining the term globalization. In 1983 he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: The purpose he said is to create and keep a customer. His words are an authoritative and insightful statement about the purpose of an enterprise. They go far beyond the hackneyed belief that business exist only to make money.[who?]

cv: Kotter, John Paul, 1947

John Paul Kotter (born 1947)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kotter

John Paul Kotter (born 1947) is a professor at the Harvard Business School, who is regarded as an authority on leadership and change. In particular, he discusses how the best organizations actually "do" change.{(Kotter & Cohen, 2002)}
John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations—became the change bible for managers around the world.[citation needed] In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises.
His newest work released September 2006, Our Iceberg Is Melting, puts the 8-step process within an allegory. This work is also provided as the basis for an in-depth leadership training program called Leading Bold Change - Creating Leaders at all Levels. The program is offered in cooperation with Dr.Kotter by ISB Worldwide Corporate Learning Management.[1]
John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. His books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com.
He graduated from MIT with an S.B. in EECS and an S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and 1970 respectively [2] and a D.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1972 [3]. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship.
Professor Kotter is the author of 15 books. In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting (2006) and Leading Change (1996), Professor Kotter is the author of The Heart of Change (2002), John P. Kotter on What leaders Really Do (1999), Matsushita Leadership (1997), Corporate Culture and Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The Leadership Factor (1998), Power and Influence (1985), The General Managers (1982), and five other books published in the 1970s. He has created two executive videos; one on "Leadership" (1981), and one on "Corporate Culture" (1993), and an educational CD-ROM (1998) based on the Leading Change book. His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold a million and a half copies. Professor Kotter's books have been printed in over seventy foreign language editions, and total sales exceed two million copies.
Professor Kotter's received an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 1996, Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General. In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography.
John Kotter lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Ashland, New Hampshire, with his wife, Nancy Dearman, and children.

cv: Porter, Michael Eugene, 1947

Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947) is a University Professor at Harvard Business School, with academic interests in management and economics. He is the founder of a nonprofit organization called the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and one of the founders of The Monitor Group. Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. He is also a Fellow Member of the Strategic Management Society. Porter graduated from Princeton University in 1969, where he was an outstanding intercollegiate golfer. He has two daughters and is divorced. He has three dogs. One of his most significant contributions is the five forces.
Porter's strategic system consists primarily of:
Porter's Five Forces Analysis
strategic groups (also called strategic sets)
the value chain
the generic strategies of cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus
the market positioning strategies of variety based, needs based, and access based market positions
global strategy
Porter's clusters of competence for regional economic development

important list of Wiki

Category:American business theorists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_business_theorists

Category:Harvard Business School faculty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harvard_Business_School_faculty

cv: Barnard, Chester Irving, 1886 – 1961

Chester Irving Barnard (1886 – 1961)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Barnard

Chester Irving Barnard (1886 – 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, Functions of the Executive, sets out a theory of organization and of the functions of executives in organizations. The book has been widely assigned in university courses in management theory and organizational sociology.[2]

cv: Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1909 – 2005

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.”[1] Widely considered to be the father of “modern management,” his 39 books and countless scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized across all sectors of society—in business, government and the nonprofit world.[2] His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power; the decisive importance of marketing; and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning.[3] In 1959, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker" and later in his life considered knowledge work productivity to be the next frontier of management.[4]

cv: Deming, William Edwards, 1900 – 1993

William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets)[1] through various methods, including the application of statistical methods.
Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later renown for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. [2]

cv: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, Sr.1868 - 1924

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (July 7, 1868 - June 14, 1924)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bunker_Gilbreth,_Sr.

For his son, author of Cheaper by the Dozen, see Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr..

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (July 7, 1868 - June 14, 1924) was an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of motion study, but is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.

cv: Herzberg, Frederick Irving,1923 - 2000

Frederick Irving Herzberg (1923 - 2000)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Herzberg

Frederick Irving Herzberg (1923 - 2000) was a noted psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management. He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory. His 1968 publication "One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?" had sold 1.2 million reprints by 1987 and was the most requested article from the Harvard Business Review.[1] Herzberg attended City College of New York, but left part way through his studies to enlist in the army. As a patrol sergeant, he was a firsthand witness of the Dachau concentration camp. He believed that this experience, as well as the talks he had with other Germans living in the area was what triggered his interest in motivation. Herzberg graduated from City College in 1946 and moved to the University of Pittsburgh to undertake post-graduate studies in science and public health. He earned his PhD in psychology with a dissertation entitled "Prognostic variables for electroshock therapy". He started his research on the workplace while teaching as a professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and later moved to the University of Utah where he held the position of professor of management in the college of business.[2]

cv: Kotler, Philip, 1931

Philip Kotler (born 27 May 1931

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kotler

Philip Kotler (born 27 May 1931 in Chicago) is the S.G. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his master's degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in economics. He did postdoctoral work in mathematics at Harvard University and in behavioral science at the University of Chicago.
He was selected in 2001 as the #4 major management guru by the Financial Times (behind Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Peter Drucker,) and has been hailed by the Management Centre Europe as "the world's foremost expert on the strategic practice of marketing." In 2008, the Wall Street Journal listed him as the 6th most influential person on business thinking.
Kotler has consulted many major U.S. and foreign companies, including IBM, Michelin, Bank of America, Merck, General Electric, Honeywell, and Motorola—in the areas of marketing strategy, planning and organization, and international marketing.
He presents seminars in major international cities around the world on the latest marketing developments to companies and other organizations.

cv: March, James Gary, 1928-

James Gary March (* 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._March

James Gary March (* 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, best known for his research on organizations and organizational decision making.
March is highly respected for his broad theoretical perspective which combined theories from psychology and other behavioural sciences. As a core member of the Carnegie School, he collaborated with the cognitive psychologist Herbert Simon on several works on organization theory. March is also known for his seminal work on the behavioural perspective on the theory of the firm along with Richard Cyert (1963). In 1972, March worked together with Olsen and Cohen on the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model.
James March is the father of four children and the grandfather of nine. Since 1953, he has served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the University of California, Irvine, and (since 1970) Stanford University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Education, and has been a member of the National Science Board.

cv: Williamson, Oliver Eaton, 1932

Oliver Eaton Williamson (born September 27, 1932)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_E._Williamson

Oliver Eaton Williamson (born September 27, 1932) is a prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics, a student of Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert. Williamson received his B.Sc. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955, M.B.A. from Stanford University in 1960, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1963. He has held professorships in business administration, economics, and law at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988 and is currently the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business.
His focus on the costs of transactions have led Williamson to distinguish between repeated case-by-case bargaining on the one hand and relationship-specific contracts on the other. For example, the repeated purchasing of coal from a spot market to meet the daily or weekly needs of an electric utility would represent case by case bargaining. But over time, the utility is likely to form ongoing relationships with a specific supplier, and the economics of the relationship-specific dealings will be importantly different, he has argued.
Other economists have tested Williamson's transaction-cost theories in empirical contexts. One important example is a paper by Paul L. Joskow, "Contract Duration and Relationship-Specific Investments: Empirical Evidence from Coal Markets," in American Economic Review, March 1987. The incomplete contracts approach to the theory of the firm and corporate finance is partly based on the work of Williamson and Coase.[1]

cv: Teece, David J.

David J. Teece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Teece

David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Teece received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Teece is a leading researcher in the fields of corporate strategy and innovation who in 2002 was listed among the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals" by Accenture.

cv: Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856–1915

Frederick Winslow Taylor (20 March 1856–21 March 1915)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (20 March 1856–21 March 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants.[1]
Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era.

cv: Simon, Herbert Alexander, 1916-2001

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. With almost a thousand often very highly cited publications he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century.
Simon was a polymath, among the founding fathers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial Intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions.
He also received many top-level honors later in life. These include: the ACM's Turing Award for making "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing" (1975); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" (1978); the National Medal of Science (1986); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (1993).
As a testament to his interdisciplinary approach, Simon was affiliated with such varied Carnegie Mellon departments as the School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, Departments of Philosophy, Social and Decision Sciences, and Psychology.

cv: Senge, Peter Michael, 1947

Peter Michael Senge (born 1947)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Senge

Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization from 1990 (new edition of 2007). He is a senior lecturer at the System Dynamics Group at MIT Sloan School of Management

cv: Scott, David Meerman 1961-

David Meerman Scott (born March 25, 1961)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Meerman_Scott

David Meerman Scott (born March 25, 1961) is an online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist and the author of three books on marketing. Based in Boston, he is a speaker at conferences and corporate events and runs seminars about marketing around the world.

cv: Schein, Edgar H. 1928-

Edgar H. Schein (born 1928)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein

Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He is generally credited with inventing the term corporate culture.
Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures; artifacts and behaviours, espoused values, and assumptions.
Schein has written on the issues surrounding coercive persuasion, comparing and contrasting brainwashing as a use for "goals that we deplore and goals that we accept."[1]

Monday, January 19, 2009

bn: Scott.1995.Institutions and organizations

Scott.1995.Institutions and organizations

Author 　　　Scott, W. Richard.
Title 　　　　Institutions and organizations / W. Richard Scott.
Published 　　Thousand Oaks : SAGE c1995.
Persistent record link: http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b2706428~S1&searchscope=0

HM131 .S3845 1995

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Early Institutionalists 1
　　　Early Institutional Theory in Economics 2
　　　Early Institutional Theory in Political Science 5
　　　Early Institutional Theory in Sociology 8
2 Institutional Theory and Organizations 16
　　　Early Applications to Organizations 16
　　　Neo-Institutional Theory and Organizations: Founding Conceptions 24
3 Contemporary Institutional Theory 33
　　　Varying Emphases: The Three Pillars of Institutions 34
　　　Varying Carriers 52
　　　Varying Levels of Analysis 55
4 Explaining Institutions: Empirical Research 63
　　　Creating and Changing Institutions 66
　　　Maintaining and Diffusing Institutions 78
5 Institutional Effects on Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations: Empirical Research 92
　　　Institutional Agents: The State and the Professions 93
　　　Effects on Societal Systems 96
　　　Effects on Organizational Fields 102
　　　Effects on Organizational Populations 108
6 Institutional Effects on Organizational Structure and Performance: Empirical Research 114
　　　Structural Effects of Institutional Context 115
　　　Interaction Effects 118
　　　Collective Responses to Institutional Environments 124
　　　Responses by Individual Organizations 128
7 Accomplishments, Continuing Controversies, New Directions 133
　　　Accomplishments 133
　　　Continuing Controversies 136
　　　New Directions 143
References 153
Index 172
About the Author 177

Author　　　 Scott, W. Richard.
Title　　　　 Institutions and organizations / W. Richard Scott.
Published 　　Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications, c2001.
Edition 　　　2nd ed.
Persistent record link: http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/record=b4507961~S1&searchscope=0

HM786 .S3845 2001

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1 Early Institutionalists 1
2 Institutional Theory and Organizations 21
3 Constructing an Analytic Framework I: Three Pillars of Institutions 47
4 Constructing an Analytic Framework II: Content, Agency, Carriers, and Levels 71
5 Institutional Construction, Maintenance, and Diffusion 91
6 Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations 125
7 Institutional Processes Affecting Organizational Structure and Performance 151
8 Institutional Change 181
9 Looking Back, Looking Forward 205
References 217
Index 247
about the Author 255

bn: Scott.1992.Organizations (3ed)

Scott.1992.Organizations (3ed)

bn: Simon.1945.1976.Administrative Behavior

Simon.1945.1976.Administrative Behavior

bn: Smith.1776.1976.the wealth of nation

Smith.1776.1976.the wealth of nation

bn: pitelis.1993.Transaction costs,markets&hierarchies

pitelis.1993.Transaction costs,markets&hierarchies

bn: Tullock.1992.Economic hierarchies,organization and the structure of production

Tullock.1992.Economic hierarchies,organization and the structure of production

bn: spulber.1999.Market Microstructure

spulber.1999.Market Microstructure

sawyer.1979.Theories of the firm

bn: Sautet.2000.an entrepreneurial theory of the firm

Sautet.2000.an entrepreneurial theory of the firm

bn: Rao.2003.The economics of transaction cost

Rao.2003.The economics of transaction cost

bn: Mintzberg.1973.The nature of managerial work

Mintzberg.1973.The nature of managerial work

bn: Medema.1997.Coasean economics

Medema.1997.Coasean economics

bn: Leibenstein.1987.Inside the firm

Leibenstein.1987.Inside the firm

bn: Lane.2005.Public Administration and public management

Lane.2005.Public Administration and public management

bn: Hansmann.1996.The ownership of enterprise

Hansmann.1996.The ownership of enterprise

bn: Furubotn.Richter.2005.1998.Institutions and economic theory

Furubotn.Richter.2005.1998.Institutions and economic theory

bn: Foss.Knudsen.1996.Towards a competence theory of the firm

Foss.Knudsen.1996.Towards a competence theory of the firm

bn: Cyert.March.1963.A Behavioral theory of the firm

Cyert.March.1963.A Behavioral theory of the firm

bn: Cyert.1988.The econ theory of org and the firm

Cyert.1988.The econ theory of org and the firm

bn: Colombo.Delmastro.2008.The economics of organizational design

Colombo.Delmastro.2008.The economics of organizational design

bn: Coase.1988.The firm, the market, and the law

Coase.1988.The firm, the market, and the law

bn: cheung.1969.the theory of share tenancy

cheung.1969.the theory of share tenancy

bn: Chandler.Daems.1980.Managerial Hierarchies

bn: Carroll.Teece.1999.firms,markets,and hierarchies

Carroll.Teece.1999.firms,markets,and hierarchies

bn: Berle.Means.1932.1968.The modern corporation and private property

Berle.Means.1932.1968.The modern corporation and private property

bn: Brousseau.Glachant.2002.the economics of contracts

Brousseau.Glachant.2002.the economics of contracts

bn: biondi.2007.The firm as an entity

biondi.2007.The firm as an entity

bn: Barnard.1960.the functions of excutive

Barnard.1960.the functions of excutive

bn: Allen.Lueck.2002.the nature of the farm

Allen.Lueck.2002.the nature of the farm

bn: hart.1995.firms, contracts, and financial structure

hart.1995.firms, contracts, and financial structure

bn: Putterman.1986.the economic nature of the firm

Putterman.1986.the economic nature of the firm

bn: Porter.1985.competitive advantage

Porter.1985.competitive advantage

bn: Porter.1998.on competition

Porter.1998.on competition

bn: Porter.1980.Competitive Strategy

Porter.1980.Competitive Strategy

bn: Penrose.1959.The theory of the growth of the firm

Penrose.1959.The theory of the growth of the firm

bn: Milgrom.Roberts.1992.Economics,organization and management

bn: Menard.2000.Institutions,contracts and organizations

Menard.2000.Institutions,contracts and organizations

bn: Menard.1997.Transaction cost economics

Menard.1997.Transaction cost economics

bn: Groenewegen.1996.TCE and Beyond

Groenewegen.1996.TCE and Beyond

bn: Dietrich.1994.TCE and Beyond

Dietrich.1994.TCE and Beyond

bn: Demsetz.1988.ownership,control,and the firm

Demsetz.1988.ownership,control,and the firm

bn: Demsetz.1995.The Economics of theBusinessFirm

Demsetz.1995.The Economics of theBusinessFirm

bn: Chandler.1990.Scale and scope

Chandler.1990.Scale and scope

bn: chandler.1985.the coming of Managerial Capitalism

chandler.1985.the coming of Managerial Capitalism

bn: Chandler.1977.1980.The visible hand

Chandler.1977.1980.The visible hand

bn: Chandler.1962.Strategy and structure

Chandler.1962.Strategy and structure

bn: Jensen.2000.A theory of the firm

Jensen.2000.A theory of the firm

bn: Jensen.1998.foundations of organizational strategy

Jensen.1998.foundations of organizational strategy

bn: Williamson.1996.The mechanisms of governance

Williamson.1996.The mechanisms of governance

bn: Williamson.1990.1995.organization theory

Williamson.1990.1995.organization theory

bn: Williamson.1986.Economic Organization

Williamson.1986.Economic Organization

Sunday, January 18, 2009

cv: Scott E. Masten

Scott E. Masten
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/departments/busecon/faculty/masten/bio.html
http://ideas.repec.org/f/pma558.html
http://works.bepress.com/scott_masten/
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pma558.htm

the following come from ssrn

1
Contractual Choice
University of Michigan Law School, Working Paper No. 99-003
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: January 1, 1999
Last Revised: September 12, 1999
Working Paper Series
1050 downloads
2
Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, Are Not Organized As Firms
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: June 7, 2000
Last Revised: June 24, 2005
Working Paper Series
568 downloads
3
Public Utility Ownership in 19th-Century America: The 'Aberrant' Case of Water
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: September 27, 2004
Last Revised: January 8, 2009
Working Paper Series
202 downloads
4
Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: August 31, 2007
Last Revised: August 31, 2007
Working Paper Series
103 downloads
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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard: Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking
NBER Working Paper No. W8859
Francine Lafontaine and Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: March 28, 2002
Last Revised: June 21, 2002
Working Paper Series
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Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, are not Organized as Firms
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 649-684, Fall 2006
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: July 20, 2006
Last Revised: December 12, 2006
Accepted Paper Series
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Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, are Not Organized as Firms
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 2006, Ross School of Business Research Paper
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: August 17, 2006
Last Revised: August 23, 2006
Accepted Paper Series
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Contractual Choice
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 1999
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date Posted: January 1, 1999
Last Revised: March 8, 2001
Accepted Paper Series

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Jan-Erik Lane: principle-agent

Jan-Erik Lane
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Jan-Erik Lane has taught politics and economics at many universities around the world. He is member of many editorial boards of political science journals. He has published some 300 books and articles. In 1996 he received the Humboldt Award by the Humboldt Stiftung. He has been full professor at the Umea university in Sweden and Oslo university in Norway. At the University of Geneva (1996-2008), he taught and examined alone around 800 students a year at all levels, from 1st year to PhD. He has been visiting professor at several universities in the US, Africa and Asia, receiving a Lady Davis professorship at the Hebrew University in 2006. He now teaches regionalism and development at the University of South Pacific in Fiji.

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http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/08/17/agency-theory-in-management/
3. daniel schut 21 August 2007 at 4:10 pm
and interesting, non-economic, non-technical introduction to “the principle-agent-framework” is by a man called Jan-Erik Lane (I forgot the title). It’s interesting because he ties the PA-framework in to more broader ideas of politics and law.
Then again, I have never read a better description of the basics then Jensen and Meckling’s “theory of the firm”