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

The Economist's Best Business Book of the Year, The Modern Firm is written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on business strategy and rganization, and provides new insights into the changes going on in business today.

John Roberts holds the John H. 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 (Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall 1992).