Inside the business enterprise : historical perspectives on the use of information / edited by Peter Temin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Temin, Peter.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business intelligence--Congresses.

Business intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior? Because business enterprises are complex institutions, these questions can prove difficult to address. All too often, firms are treated as the atoms of economics, the irreducible unit of analysis. This accessible volume, suitable for course use, looks more closely at the American firm-into its internal workings and its genesis in the Gilded Age. Focusing on the crucial role of imperfect and asymmetric information in the operation of enterprises, Inside the Business Enterprise forges an innovative link between modern economic theory and recent business history.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms

2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective

3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914

4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920

5. Information Problems and Banks' Specialization in Short- Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century

6. Did J. P. Morgan's Men Add Value? An Economist's Perspective on Financial Capitalism

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611431136

9781281431134

1281431133

9780226792057

0226792056

OCLC:

476228548