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A comparative analysis of complex organizations; : on power, involvement, and their correlates
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Year: 1961 Publisher: [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe,

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The new competition : institutions of industrial restructuring
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ISBN: 9780674609266 0674609263 0674609255 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

Organizational science abroad : constraints and perspectives
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ISBN: 0306429691 1489909141 1489909125 9780306429699 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York, NY : Plenum Press,

Logics of hierarchy : the organization of empires, states, and military occupations
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ISBN: 0801443865 1322503125 0801474833 0801462495 9780801443862 0801466393 9780801462498 9780801474835 9780801466397 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory.In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq.In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism.

Coordination and information : historical perspectives on the organization of enterprise
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ISBN: 0226468216 0226468208 9786611223793 1281223794 0226468585 9780226468587 Year: 1995 Volume: *2 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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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.

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Business intelligence --- Comparative organization --- Industrial organization (Economic theory) --- Industrial organization --- Intelligence économique --- Organisation comparée --- Economie industrielle --- Congresses --- History --- Congrès --- 658.11 --- Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Congresses. --- 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise --- Intelligence économique --- Organisation comparée --- Congrès --- Organization --- Organizational sociology --- Business espionage --- Competitive intelligence --- Corporate intelligence --- Economic espionage --- Espionage, Business --- Espionage, Economic --- Espionage, Industrial --- Industrial espionage --- Intelligence, Business --- Intelligence, Corporate --- Business ethics --- Competition, Unfair --- Industrial management --- Confidential business information --- Industries --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial sociology --- History&delete& --- Business --- Information --- Management --- E-books --- United States --- Business intelligence - Congresses. --- Comparative organization - Congresses. --- Industrial organization - History - Congresses. --- Industrial organization - United States - History - Congresses. --- 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.

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