Employees and entrepreneurship
Subtitle: co-ordination and spontaneity in non-hierarchical business organizations
By: Ivan Pongracic, Jr
Series: New thinking in political economy; New thinking in political economy
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781848446137; 9781847208064
Subjects: Human Resources & Personnel Management; Decentralization in management; Hierarchies; Workplace Culture; Employee empowerment; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: Balances the tendency for management literature to overlook basic costs and trade-offs of decentralization, and the rigidity of economics that hinders an appreciation for the real world phenomenon of decentralization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-138) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The hierarchical theory of the firm; title: 3. The knowledge problem in firms; title: 4. Spontaneous order in decentralized firms; title: 5. Employees as creative agents; title: 6. Conclusion.