Inside the Business Enterprise : Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information.

How do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior?. Because business...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Temin, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Temas:
Business intelligence > Congresses.
Business intelligence
business, success, growth, information, communication, technology, innovation, economics, internal organization, accounting practice, management, dow chemical company, cost measures, supply and demand, jp morgan, financial capitalism, commercial lending, new england, banking, nonfiction, finance, investment, entrepreneur, robber barons, history.
Conference papers and proceedings
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  • Inside the Business Enterprise Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information; Contents; Introduction; 1. Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms; 2. Managing by Remote Control: Recent Management Accounting Practice in Historical Perspective; 3. The Use of Cost Measures: The Dow Chemical Company, 1890-1914; 4. Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920.

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