This paper studies organizations with autocratic decisionmaking, i.e., where superiors make the decisions and subordinates either defy or submit to the authority. Superiors differ in the degree to which they fear defiance. The superiors who need obedience most face a fundamental credibility...

Современные исследования теории организации в области экономики гибридов создают возможность переосмыслить природу сельскохозяйственной кооперации и ее...

Organization theory is a paradoxical field of scientific inquiry. It has struggled for more than fifty years to develop a unified theory of organizational effectiveness under girded by a coherent set of assumptions, and it has thus far failed to produce one. Yet, by other standards it is...

The central message conveyed in this chapter is that there is a whole class of economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992) called "the institutional structure of production". These arrangements fall neither under pure market relationships nor within 'firm...

The excitation intervention of strategic alliance may change with the changes in the parameters of circumstance (e.g., external alliance tasks). As a result, the stable cooperation between members may suffer a complete unplanned betrayal at last. However, current perspectives on strategic...

Accounting for Public Debt and Deficit -- Alternative Marketing Strategies in Nonprofit Organizations -- Budget Approval and the Legislative Process -- Bureaucratic Structure -- Community Resilience and Crisis Management -- Consular Emergency Management -- Dictatorships and Nonprofit...