Format:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313513
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9781136512544
Content:
The Logic of Industrial Organization discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration,
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- PREFACE -- I THE LOGIC OF LARGE-SCALE OPERATION -- 1. The Structure of Industry -- 2. The Efficiency of Large-scale Operation -- 3· The Degree of Efficient Integration -- II THE ILLOGIC OF ACTUAL OPERATION -- 1. Actual Scales of Production and Operation -- 2. The Actual Size of Manufacturing Plants -- 3· Actual Sizes of Manufacturing Firms -- 4· Actual Sizes of Plants and Firms in Non-Manufacturing Industries -- 5· The Discrepancy of Theory and Fact -- III THE RELATIONS OF PRODUCER AND CONSUMER -- 1. Planned and Free Consumption -- 2. The Logic of Free Consumption -- 3· The Vagaries of Free Production for FreeConsumption -- 4· Forecasting and Market Research -- 5· Competition and Combination -- 6. Rationalization and Nationalization -- IV INVESTMENT,. EMPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT RELATIONS -- 1. The Relative Growth of Investment andEmployment -- 2. The Inter-action of Investment and Employment -- 3· Investment and Employment in Depression -- 4· The Policy of Short Hours and Multiple Shifts -- 5· Adaptation to the Growth of SpecializedManagement -- 6. Inefficiency of the Hierarchical System -- 7. Inefficiency of the Functional System -- 8. Management by the Line and Staff System -- 9. Th e Core of Ultimate Control -- 10. Liaison -- v THE STIMULUS TO LABOUR -- 1. The Social Environment of the Large Plant -- 2. Pecuniary and Trans-pecuniary Incentives -- 3· Incentives and Conducives to Work -- 4· Attractives and Conducives to Mobility -- 5· Summary and Generalization -- VI THE STIMULUS TO INVEST -- VII THE STIMULUS TO ENTERPRISE AND ADMINISTRATION -- 1. Pecuniary and Non-pecuniary Incentives -- 2. Types of Entrepreneurs and Business Administrators
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3· Short-period Supply Price of Administration -- 4· Long-period Supply Price of Administration -- VIII EDUCATION FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- 1. The Requirements for Administration -- 2. Education and Inborn Qualification -- 3· Education versus Inbred Disqualification -- 4· English 'Breeding ' -- 5· The English Educational System -- 6. The Public School Man -- 7· The University as Training Ground -- IX CONCLUSIONS -- SUBJECT INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Florence, P. Sargant The Logic of Industrial Organization Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313513
Language:
English
Keywords:
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