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Hugh van der Mandele and Arjen C. van Witteloostuijn

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Abstract: This challenging book tackles one of the most fundamental questions in economics: Why are commercial organizations more efficient than organizations in the public domain?

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781781953143
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-6

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Ch 2 Key concepts , pp 7-22

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Ch 3 The historic debate , pp 23-29

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Ch 4 Profit maximization is only part of the answer , pp 30-36

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Ch 5 Organizational mortality and its fruits , pp 37-48

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Ch 6 Causes of organizational failure , pp 49-60

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Ch 7 Uncontrollability , pp 61-86

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Ch 8 Empirical evidence , pp 87-104

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Ch 9 The soft constraint syndrome , pp 105-118

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Ch 10 When left to its own devices , pp 119-128

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Ch 11 Necrosis and apoptosis , pp 129-138

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Ch 12 Why public organizations? , pp 139-151

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