Advanced Introduction to the Economics of Organization

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvRichard N. Langlois

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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This incisive book presents a succinct overview of the economics of organization. Combining traditional approaches with more challenging, cutting-edge perspectives, Richard N. Langlois critically examines the ways in which tasks and transactions in the economy are organized.Drawing on a diverse array of historical and real-world examples, chapters outline key principles of the field including division of labor, transaction costs, moral hazard, and asset specificity. This Advanced Introduction investigates ‘organization’ more broadly, delving into underexplored areas such as capabilities and routines, evolutionary selection, dynamic transaction costs, and modular systems.Key Features:Emphasizes narrative and storytelling to convey technical conceptsDeconstructs popular misconceptions and didactic fables in the fieldProvides an engaging, non-technical analysis of the economics of organizationThe Advanced Introduction to the Economics of Organization is an invaluable resource for academics and students in economics, business and management, sociology, finance, and accounting, as well as instructors in graduate-level microtheory courses.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-25
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Advanced Introductions series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781803922935

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‘In the forty-plus years since the first dedicated courses on the economics of organization began to emerge, there has been no single resource capturing the scope, issues, and logic of the field to which instructors could direct students. Until now. Professor Langlois’ book begins by locating the sources of organizational problems in the gains to specialization and trade and then proceeds systematically through the nature and source of frictions that impede the realization of those gains and on to the various ways alternative organizational arrangements balance the always-present tradeoffs. Along the way, Professor Langlois also traces the intellectual development of the field’s central ideas and provides expertly chosen case studies to illustrate each topic. In my ideal world, the book would be required reading in all intermediate, and above, microeconomics courses. The economics profession as a whole would likely benefit as a result.’