In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird die operative Entscheidung über Eigenfertigung und Fremdbezug betrachtet. Exemplarisch wird dargelegt, dass klassische Entscheidungshilfen unwirtschaftliche Ergebnisse hervorbringen. Die qualitative und quantitative Fehlspezifikation der Fremdbezugsprodukte...

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the production sector, such as quality circles, learning groups ("Lernstatt") and project teams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic management with their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...