Using organisational economics theory, the author develops a conceptual framework for analysing the effectiveness and efficiency of public services delivery. The framework also provides a means for examining existing organisations and blueprints of future organisations, allowing for conclusions...

This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics. Building a framework of theory and empirical analysis, it provides an in-depth perspective on how economic growth and environmental policy...

Kaum eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Disziplin hat in den vergangenen Jahren das Denken in der Ökonomie so stark beeinflußt wie die moderne Institutionenökonomik. Dieses Buch beinhaltet gleichermaßen Theorie und Empirie der Institutionenökonomik: Auf das Herausarbeiten bestimmter...

Beziehungen als Bezugspunkt einer strategischen Beschaffung -- Gründe und Wirkungszusammenhänge innerhalb kritischer Geschäftsbeziehungen -- Ermittlung und Optimierung des Wertes einer Geschäftsbeziehung -- Beschreibung von Geschäftsbeziehungstypen mittels Einflussfaktoren sowie praktische...

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium...

This book explores institutional change and economic behaviour by examining the transition process in the former socialist countries that joined the EU in 2004, looking at the growth occurring in China, offering a historical perspective on economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, and...

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analysing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is inseparable from both the economy and a...

This book is the first to reinterpret John R. Commons's Institutional Economics with a newly discovered manuscript written in 1927 in order to find its contemporary meanings in economic theories. Commons aimed to establish institutional economics to understand capitalism in the USA of that time,...