Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction to organization in the economic firm -- Part I: The structure of authority -- 2. Rank, level, and control -- 3. Height and thickness -- 4. Supervision -- 5. Time, order, and firm organization -- Part II: Organizational complexity -- 6. Complexity and...

This paper examines the implicit links between models containing ordinal variables and their underlying unquantified counterparts that are necessary to make the former viable theoretical constructions. It is argued that when the underlying unquantified structure is unknown, the permissible...