TY - BOOK AU - Brickley,James A. AU - Smith,Clifford W. AU - Zimmerman,Jerold L. TI - Managerial economics and organizational architecture SN - 9780073523019 U1 - 658 PY - 2007/// CY - New Delhi PB - Tara McGraw-Hill KW - Managerial economics KW - Organizational effectiveness N1 - Introduction -- Economist's view of behavior -- Markets, organizations, and the role of knowledge -- Demand -- Production and cost -- Market structure -- Pricing with market power -- Economics of strategy : creating and capturing value -- Economics of strategy : game theory -- Incentive conflicts and contracts -- Organizational architecture -- Decision rights : the level of empowerment -- Decision rights : bundling tasks into jobs and subunits -- Attracting and retaining qualified employees -- Incentive compensation -- Individual performance evaluation -- Divisional performance evaluation capstone case study on organizational architecture : Arthur Anderson LLP -- Corporate governance -- Vertical integration and outsourcing -- Leadership : motivating change within organizations -- Understanding the business environment : the economics of regulation -- Ethics and organizational architecture -- Organizational architecture and the process of management innovation N2 - Contains an approach to managerial economics that takes models from economics research and applies the research to the internal structure of a firm. This work contends that organizational architecture consists of three aspects: the assignment of decision rights; methods of rewarding individuals; and, structure of systems UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006043340-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006043340-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0737/2006043340-b.html ER -