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Private For-profit Organizations: the Firm

Kathleen A. Carroll

Chapter 5 in Property Rights and Managerial Decisions in For-profit, Nonprofit, and Public Organizations, 2004, pp 61-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In economic analysis the firm is the organization of the business activities of production and sales. The firm employs resources to produce some good(s) or service(s) to sell with the important consideration of earning a profit.

Keywords: Transaction Cost; Chief Executive Officer; Stock Option; Economic Property; Bounded Rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403948090_5

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