Economic Approaches to Organizations

Sytse Douma, Hein Schreuder (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2017 | 6th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-12890-0 (ISBN)

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Help your students understand the economic approaches used in organisations today Economic Approaches to Organizations, 6th edition, introduces your students to the different economic approaches used in organisations today and teaches them how these concepts relate to real-life organisational problems using examples and applications throughout.

Understand the link between management and economics with this unique text. Economic Approaches to Organizations, 6th edition, by Sytse Douma and Hein Schreuder, walks you through different economic approaches in a non-technical way, making it widely accessible. Emphasising the importance of economic issues and developments in the study of organisations and management, the text explores topics such as behavioural theory of the firm, game theory, agency theory, transaction cost economics, the economics of strategy and evolutionary approaches.

The book is unique in the market in its attempt to make the link between management and economics, using practical examples throughout to help you understand how the concepts relate to economic and organisational issues in the world today.

The 6th edition is packed with updated examples taken from real life and includes new chapters and sections, like a separate chapter on behavioural economics that covers bounds on rationality and self-interest as well as prospect theory.

Benefit from the features this edition has to offer:

Use of empirical results and real-world data
A step-by-step conceptual framework to explain fundamental economic approaches to organisations.
Real-life examples.
End-of-chapter questions.
Quotations.
Diagrams.
Further reading and study.
A range of cases with a global link.

With its unique perspective and range of learning features, this text will provide you with a practical understanding of economic approaches used in organisations today.

Sytse Douma is professor of business administration at Tilburg University. Hein Schreuder was executive vice president of corporate strategy and acquistitions at Royal DSM N.V. until 2012. He is honorary professor of business economics at Maastricht University and board member of the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

Part I Foundations

1. Markets and organizations
2. Markets
3. Organizations
4. Information
5. Game theory
6. Econs and Humans

Part II Economic Approaches

7. Behavioural theory of the firm
8. Agency theory
9. Transaction cost economics
10. Economic Contributions to business/competitive strategy
11. Economic contributions to corporate strategy
12. Evolutionary approaches to organizations
13. All in the family

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 244 mm
Gewicht	665 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-292-12890-9 / 1292128909
ISBN-13	978-1-292-12890-0 / 9781292128900
Zustand	Neuware