1. What we know and what we don't know about the firm -- 2. The extent of the market process -- 3. The 'specialisation deadlock' -- 4. Entrepreneurship and integration -- 5. Authority and hierarchy -- 6. The volatile character of the firm -- 7. Financing, ownership, and boundaries of the firm --...

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...