Efficient and Viable Organizational Forms (1959)
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Abstract
If several persons agree to follow a certain set of rules, we shall say — just for the purpose of this paper and without quarreling with other existing definitions — that they are members of an organization. We shall call this set of rules the organizational form or constitution.
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Organizational Form Payoff Function Aspiration Level Sales Representative Average Profit
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Notes
- 1.C. B. McGuire, ‘Some Team Models of a Sales Organization’, Management Science, 7 (1961), 101–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- 2.In collaboration with Roy Radner, now at the University of California, the author has attempted to classify various models of teams on the basis of their mathematical properties. Such models are relevant to many aspects of business, such as production, promotion of sales, speculation, etc. A book on the economic theory of teams is being prepared. See also the author’s `Elements for a Theory of Teams’, Selected Essays,21, and `Towards an Economic Theory of Organization and Information’, Selected Essays,20.Google Scholar
- 3.For a different problem, see Roy Radner, `The Application of Linear Programming to Team Decision Problems’, Management Science 5, No. 2 (January, 1959 ).Google Scholar
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