Hein Schreuder - Böcker

For the first time, prominent scholars of the major disciplines in organization studies come together to search for common ground. Economists, sociologists and psychologists put aside their disciplinary, their language and paradigm barriers, in seeking to address common problems and find universal solutions. Recent advances in population ecology, transaction cost economics, control theory, leadership studies and decision-making are among the topics covered as well as new syntheses on old confrontations between issues of power and efficiency and of rationality and norms. These papers, stemming from the International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies (Wassenaar, Netherlands, May 1990) reflect the interdisciplinary rapprochement that has gathered momentum over the last ten years, and will surely point to important new directions in organization studies for the future. Organizational researchers, PhD students and students of advanced courses in organizational studies, as well as researchers in the fields of sociology, psychology and economics will find this an important reference and study volume.

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.

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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.

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