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Information and Organization

Mark Casson
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      This book offers a vision of the economy as a system of structured information flow. The structuring is effected by institutions, and in particular by firms, which specialize in processing the information needed to allocate resources properly. Firms are the institutional embodiment of the visions of individual entrepreneurs who believe that they have found a better way of allocating resources.Entrepreneurial vision is only a partial vision, however, in the sense that it does not encompass the entire economy, but only a subset of it. Free market economies encourage the exploitation of such partial visions because they encourage intermediation—-it is by mediating between potential buyers and potential sellers that entrepreneurial visions are realized. A legal framework of private property, coupled with a moral framework to control the incidence of cheating, allows very sophisticatedstructures of information processing to emerge. These structures effect an elaborate division of labour in the dimensions of information and control. Each firm is a small component of the overall structure of information flow. This structure is highly flexible and evolves continuously ascircumstances change. Efficient adaptation is encouraged by rewarding entrepreneurs who create new firms to be slotted into the existing structure.This vision has evolved over the last fifteen years, during which the author has researched a variety of topics connected with the theory of the firm——entrepreneurship, business culture, multinational enterprise, joint ventures and the like. In each of these areas he has identified the ways in which the orthodox theory of the firm needs to be modified in order to make it work properly. This book represents a major intellectual synthesis of that work.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Casson EAN: 9780198297802 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 482 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-11 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, COMPUTERS / Management Information Systems WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Microeconomics, Business mathematics and systems, Organizational theory and behaviour

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      Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading
      This book offers a vision of the economy as a system of structured information flow. The structuring is effected by institutions, and in particular by firms, which specialize in processing the information needed to allocate resources properly. Firms are the institutional embodiment of the visions of individual entrepreneurs who believe that they have found a better way of allocating resources.Entrepreneurial vision is only a partial vision, however, in the sense that it does not encompass the entire economy, but only a subset of it. Free market economies encourage the exploitation of such partial visions because they encourage intermediation—-it is by mediating between potential buyers and potential sellers that entrepreneurial visions are realized. A legal framework of private property, coupled with a moral framework to control the incidence of cheating, allows very sophisticatedstructures of information processing to emerge. These structures effect an elaborate division of labour in the dimensions of information and control. Each firm is a small component of the overall structure of information flow. This structure is highly flexible and evolves continuously ascircumstances change. Efficient adaptation is encouraged by rewarding entrepreneurs who create new firms to be slotted into the existing structure.This vision has evolved over the last fifteen years, during which the author has researched a variety of topics connected with the theory of the firm——entrepreneurship, business culture, multinational enterprise, joint ventures and the like. In each of these areas he has identified the ways in which the orthodox theory of the firm needs to be modified in order to make it work properly. This book represents a major intellectual synthesis of that work.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Casson EAN: 9780198297802 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 482 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-11 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, COMPUTERS / Management Information Systems WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Microeconomics, Business mathematics and systems, Organizational theory and behaviour

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      Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading

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