The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)

Roberts, John

ISBN 10: 0198293763 / ISBN 13: 9780198293767

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198293763
• ISBN 13: 9780198293767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Finally, the book explores why these developments are happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and changes in technology.

About the Author

John Roberts holds the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professorship in Economics, Strategic Management and International Business in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published over seventy scholarly articles in academic journals in a variety of areas in economic theory and game theory and their application to problems in industrial competition and management. He has also written numerous case studies of businesses and co-authored the seminal textbook on the economics and management of firms (The Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall 1992).