Inside the Firm : The Inefficiencies of Hierarchy

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Organization and the Procedural Perspective -- CHAPTER 2. Decision Occurrences -- CHAPTER 3. On the Anatomy of Decisions -- CHAPTER 4. Economics of Inertia -- CHAPTER 5. Productivity: The Hidden Prisoner's Dilemma Analysis -- CHAPTER 6. Conventions, Coordination, and Decisions -- CHAPTER 7. Conventions as a Solution to the Intrafirm Prisoner's Dilemma Problem -- CHAPTER 8. Intrafirm Effort Decisions: Monitoring and Sanctions -- CHAPTER 9. Equilibrium, Entrepreneur ship, and Inertia -- CHAPTER 10. An Implications Sampler -- CHAPTER 11. The Power of Hierarchy -- CHAPTER 12. Specialization, Hierarchy, and Internal Inefficiency -- CHAPTER 13. On Japanese Ethos, Culture, and Management -- CHAPTER 14. Japanese and Western Management Systems: The Contrasts -- CHAPTER 15. Putting It All Together -- APPENDIX. Language, Choice, and Nonoptimization -- References -- Index