The title of this essay is a play of words on "The Tragedy of the Commons", the title of the landmark paper by Garrett Hardin which appeared in Science in 1968. After a long period of dormancy, the concept was resuscitated by Elinor Ostrom in 1990 in a book which gained her the Nobel Prize in...

The title of this essay is a play of words on The Tragedy of the Commons, the title of the landmark paper by Garrett Hardin which appeared in Science in 1968. After a long period of dormancy, the concept was resuscitated by Elinor Ostrom in 1990 in a book which gained her the Nobel Prize in...

This article looks at the complex dynamics that underlie organizational change and attempts to explain why, under present uncertain environmental conditions, it is not possible to determine in advance the results of strategic moves made by business and other types of organizations. It explores...

This article reports on the study of the control practices of managers of small business organizations of the Philippines. Where possible, results are compared with those obtained from similar surveys conducted by the author elsewhere in the region. Among the hypothesized ¡°determinants¡± of...

The title of this essay is a play of words on “The Tragedy of the Commons,” the title of the landmark paper by Garrett Hardin which appeared in Science in 1968. After a long period of dormancy, the concept was resuscitated by Elinor Ostrom in 1990 in a book which gained her the Nobel Prize...

This article looks at the complex dynamics that underlie organizational change and attempts to explain why, under present uncertain environmental conditions, it is not possible to determine in advance the results of strategic moves made by business and other types of organizations. It explores...

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Drawing on insights from organizational economics, this paper attempts to explain certain bureaucratic phenomena that have long been outside the purview of economics. It shows that "rational" behavior on the part of the various groups in economic organizations such as business firms and...

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