Noneconomic Objectives in the History of Economic Thought

A bstract .   Noneconomic objectives were a significant part of the international economics subspecialty in economics.     

Incentives,income sharing,and institutional innovation in the yugoslav self-managed firm

The incentive properties of income-sharing arrangements are analyzed for situations in which workers are allowed to form group or coalition decisions on effort. Both the feasibility and enforceability of such decisions are shown to depend on a variety of organizational characteristics, including the degree of worker participation and the size and divisionalization of the firm. Finally, the recent decentralization of Yugoslav firms is shown to enhance the incentive effects of income sharing.     

Managing Knowledge in Loosely Coupled Networks: Exploring the Links between Product and Knowledge Dynamics

The contemporary literature concentrates on ‘make or buy’ decisions in design and production activities, assuming that decisions about the underlying fields of technological knowledge will automatically be the same. Building on previous research on multitechnology firms and products, this paper argues that firms know more about technology than they apply in their own production. We propose two major dimensions according to which firms should adjust their knowledge and production boundaries, namely systemic interdependencies across components and uneven rate of change across components’ underlying knowledge bases. We analyse the implications of this less‐than‐perfect overlap between knowledge and production boundaries for the management of firms’ external relationships.     

年度报告——需要改进之处

年度报告是建立公司形象的重要一环,除了向投资者提供公司财务状况的有价值的信息外,还能帮助投资者认识公司的经营情况和未来发展前景.但是这些年度报告是否符合水准呢?来自"五大"的合伙人及一位财务总监提出了他们的观点.