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The logic of industrial organization

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Covering issues as pertinent today as when the book was first published, <EM>The Logic of Industrial Organization</EM> discusses key themes in industrial relations, manufacturing, employment and investment and education for business administration. The book contains chapters on the following: The Structure of Industry; The Efficiency of Large-Scale Operation; Planned and Free Consumption; Forecasting and Market Research; Competition; Rationalization and Nationalization; Investment and Employment; Incentives to Work and Mobility; Stimulus to Enterprise and Administration.

Title The logic of industrial organization / P. Sargant Florence. [Routledge library editions. Economics ]
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2003
Notes First published in 1933.
Content Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Table of Contents
List of Tables
PREFACE
I THE LOGIC OF LARGE-SCALE OPERATION
1. The Structure of Industry
2. The Efficiency of Large-scale Operation
3· The Degree of Efficient Integration
II THE ILLOGIC OF ACTUAL OPERATION
1. Actual Scales of Production and Operation
2. The Actual Size of Manufacturing Plants
3· Actual Sizes of Manufacturing Firms
4· Actual Sizes of Plants and Firms in Non-Manufacturing Industries
5· The Discrepancy of Theory and Fact
III THE RELATIONS OF PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
1. Planned and Free Consumption 2. The Logic of Free Consumption
3· The Vagaries of Free Production for FreeConsumption
4· Forecasting and Market Research
5· Competition and Combination
6. Rationalization and Nationalization
IV INVESTMENT,. EMPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
1. The Relative Growth of Investment andEmployment
2. The Inter-action of Investment and Employment
3· Investment and Employment in Depression
4· The Policy of Short Hours and Multiple Shifts
5· Adaptation to the Growth of SpecializedManagement
6. Inefficiency of the Hierarchical System
7. Inefficiency of the Functional System 8. Management by the Line and Staff System
9. Th e Core of Ultimate Control
10. Liaison
v THE STIMULUS TO LABOUR
1. The Social Environment of the Large Plant
2. Pecuniary and Trans-pecuniary Incentives
3· Incentives and Conducives to Work
4· Attractives and Conducives to Mobility
5· Summary and Generalization
VI THE STIMULUS TO INVEST
VII THE STIMULUS TO ENTERPRISE AND ADMINISTRATION
1. Pecuniary and Non-pecuniary Incentives
2. Types of Entrepreneurs and Business Administrators
3· Short-period Supply Price of Administration 4· Long-period Supply Price of Administration
VIII EDUCATION FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
1. The Requirements for Administration
2. Education and Inborn Qualification
3· Education versus Inbred Disqualification
4· English 'Breeding '
5· The English Educational System
6. The Public School Man
7· The University as Training Ground
IX CONCLUSIONS
SUBJECT INDEX
Series Routledge library editions. Economics. Industrial economics
VII
Extent 1 online resource (295 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713205605171
MARC RECORDS

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