The Modern Firm :Organizational Design for Performance and Growth - Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
The Modern Firm :Organizational Design for Performance and Growth - Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
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6 September, 2007
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Winner of ^ITHE ECONOMIST^R BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2004.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780198293750 |
| ISBN10 | 0198293755 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 425 g |
| Product Dimensions | 136 x 214 x 26 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Oxford University Press |
| Format | paperback |
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I am aware of no book that does a better job of integrating rigorous economic reasoning with a rich understanding of how firms operate. Economists, sociologists, organization and strategy scholars, as well as practicing managers, can all learn from the insights on strategy and organization contained in this very fine book. * Joel Podolny, Dean of Yale School of Management *
This book shows how recent ideas from economics can help us understand and improve the interplay between a firm's strategy and organization. It is a book for people looking for a deeper understanding of the modern firm - and enjoying the experience. As one of the world's foremost experts on economics and management, Roberts writes in an engaging style that makes the new ideas readily accessible to a wider business audience. * Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT *
There are plenty of books on management and leadership that explain what leading firms do. This one explains why. The penetrating insights in The Modern Firm can profitably be applied to a wide variety of strategy and organization problems. Roberts, an economist of the first rank, offers us a practical, readable discussion, without mathematical notation. The Modern Firm should be required reading for corporate leaders and their advisers. * Jonathan Day, Partner, McKinsey & Company *
...it is interesting, which isn't something you can say about many business books. * The Times *
...best business book of the year...deserves to be a classic... Nobody, it can now be said, is fully fit to run a modern firm until they have read The Modern Firm. * The Economist *
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Author's Bio
John Roberts holds the John H. Scully Professorship in Economics, Strategic Management and International Business in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published over seventy scholarly articles in academic journals in a variety of areas in economic theory and game theory and their application to problems in industrial competition and management. He has also written numerous case studies of businesses and co-authored the seminal textbook on the economics and management of firms (Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall 1992).