Economic Approaches to Organizations, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (April 7, 2017) © 2017

  • Sytse Douma Tilburg University
  • Hein Schreuder Maastricht University

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  • A print edition
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  • A print edition

Title overview

Understand the link between management and economics with this unique text.

Economic Approaches to Organizations, 6th edition, is a highly accessible text that walks you through different economic approaches in a non-technical way.

This edition is packed with updated examples taken from real life and includes new chapters and sections, with practical examples throughout to help you understand how the concepts relate to economic and organisational issues in the world.

Unique in its attempt to make the link between management and economics, this text will provide you with a practical understanding of economic approaches used in organisations today.

This title has a Companion Website.

Table of contents

Part I Foundations

  1. 1. Markets and organizations
  2. 2. Markets
  3. 3. Organizations
  4. 4. Information
  5. 5. Game theory
  6. 6. Econs and Humans

Part II Economic Approaches

  1. 7. Behavioural theory of the firm
  2. 8. Agency theory
  3. 9. Transaction cost economics
  4. 10. Economic Contributions to business/competitive strategy
  5. 11. Economic contributions to corporate strategy
  6. 12. Evolutionary approaches to organizations
  7. 13. All in the family

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