There will be online proctoring during the exam at ZOOM platform. This "black box" view of the firm captures many important aspects of what a firm does, but leaves many questions unanswered: why do firms exist?, why some firms decide to buy inputs and others to make them?, what do managers do?, what is the role of hierarchy?, why do firms often appear dysfunctional?, why do inefficient and efficient firms coexist?, should we care about their coexistence? The purpose of this course is to move beyond the Neoclassical view of the firm and to provide you with a set of models that you can use as a first step when thinking about modern Given market prices, the firm chooses a set of inputs to buy, turns them into outputs, and then sells those outputs on the market in order to maximize profits. Neoclassical economics traditionally viewed a firm as a production set. The second part of the course revolves around the Economics of Organizations. How should the principal cope with this situation? In the context of organizations, we will see how firm’s owners succeed in aligning the objectives of its various members, such as workers, supervisors, and managers, with profit maximization. This private information can be of two types: either the agent can take a hidden action (known as moral hazard) or the agent has some private knowledge (known as adverse selection). The principal delegates a task to the agent who will obtain some private information as a result. We will focus on settings with two parties: a principal (e.g. Economics of Information looks at situations where one of the contracting parties have private information. This had deep implications for economic policy. This field was a revolution in economics, overturning long standing presumptions, including the one of market efficiency. The first part of this course provides an introduction to the Economics of Information.
Part Three focuses on positioning and sustaining advantage and.Part One centers on the boundaries of the firm.The examples are drawn from around the globe and cover various business practices from the eighteenth century to modern days. The text is technical in its approach but accessible due to its numerous real-world examples. The book uses economic theory to discuss and to quantify popular concepts of modern business strategy. This influential business book provides a detailed and comprehensive text offering a link between economic theory and business applications. The Economics of strategy, 5th édition has been translated into French by Thierry Burger-Helmchen, Julien Pénin and Caroline Hussler, under the title " Principes économiques de stratégie", edited by DeBoeck. The signature book covers feature famous impressionist paintings.
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Economics of Strategy is one of the leading books of its kind and has earned loyalty both as a classroom tool and as a professional reference book. The text was initially published in 1996 by John Wiley & Sons and, as of 2017, available in its seventh edition. The book offers a solid economic foundation for strategic analysis.
Economics of Strategy is a textbook by David Besanko, David Dranove, Scott Schaefer, and Mark Shanley.
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