TY - BOOK ID - 2563643 TI - Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise AU - Lamoreaux, Naomi R. AU - Raff, Daniel M. G. PY - 1995 VL - *2 SN - 0226468216 0226468208 9786611223793 1281223794 0226468585 9780226468587 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Business intelligence KW - Comparative organization KW - Industrial organization (Economic theory) KW - Industrial organization KW - Intelligence économique KW - Organisation comparée KW - Economie industrielle KW - Congresses KW - History KW - Congrès KW - 658.11 KW - Kinds and forms of enterprise KW - Congresses. KW - 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise KW - Intelligence économique KW - Organisation comparée KW - Congrès KW - Organization KW - Organizational sociology KW - Business espionage KW - Competitive intelligence KW - Corporate intelligence KW - Economic espionage KW - Espionage, Business KW - Espionage, Economic KW - Espionage, Industrial KW - Industrial espionage KW - Intelligence, Business KW - Intelligence, Corporate KW - Business ethics KW - Competition, Unfair KW - Industrial management KW - Confidential business information KW - Industries KW - Industrial concentration KW - Industrial sociology KW - History&delete& KW - Business KW - Information KW - Management KW - E-books KW - United States KW - Business intelligence - Congresses. KW - Comparative organization - Congresses. KW - Industrial organization - History - Congresses. KW - Industrial organization - United States - History - Congresses. KW - management, organization, coordination, competition, firms, business, economics, nonfiction, asymmetric information, production, industry, compensation, interwar, automobile, industrial engineering, technology, innovation, antitrust, regulation, research and development, thomson-houston electric company, mortgage lending, life insurance, finance, germany, united kingdom, universal banking. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2563643 AB - Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information-information not equally available to all parties-are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies-drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms. ER -