Economic Behaviour within Organizations

Stephen A. Hoenack

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511895708

This book provides a comprehensive economic analysis of the internal working of organizations. Its attention to the role of information costs in influencing the breadth of discretion that members of an organization have, and the nature and effectiveness of the constraints that can be put upon them, leads to many important hypotheses about organizational behavior. These hypotheses are relevant to both private and public organizations, to charitable and profit-making ones, to bureaucracies and legislatures, and to organizations in free market and centrally planned economies. Stephen Hoenack proposes that managers' optimal choices of constraints in the face of information costs ordinarily leave subordinates with some latitude to use resources in pursuit of their own objectives. Employees can thus create an economy within the organization that responds to their goals as well as to the demands of external constituents.

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Preface
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Definitions and determinants of employees' discretion over an organization's resources and production
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3 - Employees' resource diversions and employers' imposition of resource responsibility
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4 - Short-run resource allocation under fixed budgets
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5 - Short-run resource allocation in response to demand: the cases of an employee, a private corporation, and a private nonprofit organization
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6 - Legislative demand and short-run price and output of the public organization
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7 - Employees' investment behavior and implications for suborganization
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8 - Equilibrium behavior of public and private organizations in the first long run
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9 - The demand and supply of nonmarket resource allocation
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10 - A brief summary and proposed directions for further work
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Notes
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

1 - Introduction
pp 1-15

2 - Definitions and determinants of employees' discretion over an organization's resources and production
pp 16-33

3 - Employees' resource diversions and employers' imposition of resource responsibility
pp 34-67

4 - Short-run resource allocation under fixed budgets
pp 68-112

5 - Short-run resource allocation in response to demand: the cases of an employee, a private corporation, and a private nonprofit organization
pp 113-139

6 - Legislative demand and short-run price and output of the public organization
pp 140-172

7 - Employees' investment behavior and implications for suborganization
pp 173-209

8 - Equilibrium behavior of public and private organizations in the first long run
pp 210-229

9 - The demand and supply of nonmarket resource allocation
pp 230-247

10 - A brief summary and proposed directions for further work
pp 248-256

Notes
pp 257-271

References
pp 272-280

Core definitions
pp 281-283

Index
pp 284-290

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