Some Transaction Cost Effects of Authoritarian Management

Tamara Todorova () and Aleksandar Vasilev

International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2017, vol. 24, issue 3, 295-314

Abstract: This paper studies the transaction cost economizing effects of authoritarian management in organizations and systems subject to higher transaction costs originating from various sources. We analyze the nature, mechanisms, and transaction cost aspects of the authoritarian management style. We argue that the higher the transaction costs of internal organization, the more autocratic the manager is likely to be. We discuss the features of authoritarian managers, illustrating some of our key hypotheses with the example of Henry Ford and his running of the Ford Motor Company. In the context of non-market economies, we relate authoritarian leadership to economic centralism in high transaction cost systems such as East European societies with significant transactional or organizational opportunism, as well as other sources of market failure.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13571516.2017.1322258

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