LEADER 05051nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910784878603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-22379-4 010 $a9786611223793 010 $a0-226-46858-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226468587 035 $a(CKB)1000000000403121 035 $a(EBL)408221 035 $a(OCoLC)476228031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10083834 035 $a(PQKB)11283345 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408221 035 $a(DE-B1597)524992 035 $a(OCoLC)1055285136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226468587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408221 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10216921 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL122379 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000403121 100 $a19941024d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCoordination and information$b[electronic resource] $ehistorical perspectives on the organization of enterprise /$fedited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G. Raff 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 1 $aA National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-46821-6 311 $a0-226-46820-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tNational Bureau of Economic Research --$tContents --$tIntroduction: History and Theory in Search of One Another --$t1. The Puzzling Profusion of Compensation Systems in the Interwar Automobile Industry --$t2. Industrial Engineering and the Industrial Enterprise, 1890-1940 --$t3. The Coordination of Business Organization and Technological Innovation within the Firm: A Case Study of the Thomson- Houston Electric Company in the 1880's --$t4. Organization and Coordination in Geographically Concentrated Industries --$t5. The Boundaries of the U.S. Firm in R&D --$t6. Legal Restraints on Economic Coordination: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1920 --$t7. The Evolution of Interregional Mortgage Lending Channels, 1870-1940: The Life Insurance-Mortgage Company Connection --$t8. The Costs of Rejecting Universal Banking: American Finance in the German Mirror, 1870-1914 --$tContributors --$tName Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aCase studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information-information not equally available to all parties-are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies-drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms. 410 0$aConference report (National Bureau of Economic Research) 606 $aBusiness intelligence$vCongresses 606 $aComparative organization$vCongresses 606 $aIndustrial organization (Economic theory)$vCongresses 606 $aIndustrial organization$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aIndustrial organization$zUnited States$xHistory$vCongresses 610 $amanagement, organization, coordination, competition, firms, business, economics, nonfiction, asymmetric information, production, industry, compensation, interwar, automobile, industrial engineering, technology, innovation, antitrust, regulation, research and development, thomson-houston electric company, mortgage lending, life insurance, finance, germany, united kingdom, universal banking. 615 0$aBusiness intelligence 615 0$aComparative organization 615 0$aIndustrial organization (Economic theory) 615 0$aIndustrial organization$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrial organization$xHistory 676 $a338.7 676 $a658.4038 701 $aLamoreaux$b Naomi R$0145579 701 $aRaff$b Daniel M. G$0145580 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784878603321 996 $aCoordination and information$93686960 997 $aUNINA