Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)
Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)
Temes de Microeconomia(10093)
Introduction. Why do organizations exist?
Lectura
COASE, R. H. "The nature of the firm".
Economica, 1937.
Tema 1. Coordination: team theory and its application
Lectura
MILGROM, P.; ROBERTS, J.
Economics, organization and management. Englewood Cliffs
(N.J.): Prentice-Hall, 1992. Cap. 3 i 4.
1.1. Team theory.
1.2. Using prices for coordination.
1.3. Decentralization through prices versus quantities.
1.4. The U-form versus the M-form structure.
Lectures
CHANDLER, A. D.
Strategy and Structure. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press,
1969.
WILLIAMSON, O. E.
Markets and Hierarchies. Nova York: Free Press, 1976.
WILLIAMSON, O. E.
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Nova York: Free
Press, 1985.
Tema 2. Hierarchy
2.1. Simon's simple model of hierarchy.
2.2. Loss of Control.
Lectura
CALVO; WELLISZ. "Supervision, loss of control and the
optimum size of the firm".
Journal of Political Economy, 1979.
2.3. Organization of information processing.
Lectura
SAH; STIGLITZ. "The architecture of economic systems:
hierarchies and polyarchies".
American Economic Review, 1986.
Tema 3. Incentives
3.1. Review of adverse Selection.
3.2. Review of moral hazard.
3.3. Multitasking.
Lectura
HOLMSTROM; MILGROM. "Multitask principal agent analysis:
incentive contracts, asset ownership and job design".
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1991.
3.4. Career concerns.
Lectura
HOLMSTROM, B. "Managerial incentive problems. A dynamic
perspective". A:
Essays in economics and management in honor of Lars
Wahlbeck. Helsinki, 1982.
3.5. Collusion.
Lectura
TIROLE. "Collusion and the theory of organizations". A:
LAFFONT, J. J.
Advances in economic theory. Cambridge University Press,
1992.
Tema 4. Applications
4.1. Grameen banks.
Lectura
MORDUCH. "The microfinance promise".
Journal of Economic Literature, 37. Desembre de 1999.
4.2. Open source.
Lectures
LERNER, J.; TIROLE, J. "The simple economics of open
source".
NBER Working Paper, 7600. 2000.
www.opensource.org
4.3. Downsizing.
Lectura
JEON; LAFFONT. "The efficient mechanism for downsizing the
public sector".
World Bank Economic Review, 13. Gener de 1999.
Tema 5. Other advanced topics
5.1. Authority.
5.2. Management of self-confidence.
5.3. Corporate culture.
5.4. Organizational knowledge.
5.5. Ownership.
Bibliografia
Bibliografia principal
MILGROM, P.; ROBERTS, J.
Economics, organization and management. Englewood Cliffs
(N.J.): Prentice-Hall, 1992.
CHANDLER, A. D. Strategy and Structure. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1969.
COASE, R. H. "The nature of the firm". Economica, 1937.
WILLIAMSON, O. E. Markets and Hierarchies. Nova York: Free Press, 1976.
WILLIAMSON, O. E. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Nova York: Free Press, 1985.