Managerial Economics and Organizational Structure

Author: James Breckley Smith, Zhang Zhiqiang, etc. (USA)
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book focuses on issues that managers are concerned about. For example, it delves into topics such as compensation policies, external purchases, transfer pricing, and business process reorganization. We rarely devote much space to public policy issues, such as minimum wage laws, antitrust policies, and income redistribution through welfare systems and tax regulations. Compared to some existing textbooks, this book has the following important features:
1. It provides a comprehensive, cross-functional framework for organizational issues.
2. We have taken great care to ensure the text is easy to understand.
3. We have selected numerous examples from management publications and personal experience to demonstrate relevant theoretical concepts and principles.
4. Traditional economics teaching often excludes topics such as external purchases, leadership, corporate restructuring, total quality management, and ethical issues.
5. The questions and cases at the end of each chapter are drawn from real-world organizational practices or management publications, or provided by our full-time MBA students.
This book represents the latest developments in the field and discusses an exciting and evolving area of research and practice: organizational structure. Compared to some existing textbooks, this book has the following important features:
1. It provides a comprehensive, cross-functional framework for organizational issues.
2. It is accessible and engaging, making it suitable for professionals, educators, and students alike.
3. Numerous examples are selected from management publications and personal experience to demonstrate relevant theoretical concepts and principles.
4. It is closely tied to reality, focusing on current trends in the management field and demonstrating how to use the book's framework to analyze and understand these management issues.
5. Each chapter includes questions and cases. Through the review questions at the end of each chapter, students can apply the framework provided in the book to analyze and solve problems that managers may face, thereby deepening their understanding of the material.