Property rights and managerial decisions in for-profit, nonprofit, and public organizations comparative theory and policy
[Book]
Kathleen A. Carroll
Basingstoke
Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan
2004
(XI, 231 Seiten)
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Cover; Property Rights and Managerial Decisions in For-profit, Nonprofit, and Public Organizations; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 The Economic Theory of Organizations:What It Is and What It Isn't; 3 Efficient Decisions in Organizations and Social Welfare; 4 Property Rights, Incentives, and Organizations; 5 Private For-profit Organizations: the Firm; 6 Public Sector Organizations: the Bureau; 7 Nonprofit Organizations; 8 Comparative Organizational Structures and Managerial Decisions; 9 Organizational Structure and Policy: Regulation and Taxation. 10 Organizational Structure and Policy: Industrial Organization11 Variations in Organizational Structures; 12 Economic Theory of Organizations as a Social Science; 13 Additional Issues in Economic Theory of Organizations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; .
The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behaviour. She compares the rights, incentives, and corresponding decision behaviour in for-profit, nonprofit, and public organizations under conditions of unbounded rationality. She shows that managerial responses to regulation, tax, and industrial organization policies may differ from the usual predictions when property rights are considered. She also shows how property rights link economic and organization theory