Employees and entrepreneurship co-ordination and spontaneity in non-hierarchical business organizations /

Over the last few decades, there has been a great deal of management literature recommending the removal of firms' hierarchies and the empowerment of employees. Ivan Pongracic, Jr. examines these themes through the lense of the economic theory of the firm. Balancing the tendency for management...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pongracic, Ivan.
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2009.
Series:New thinking in political economy.
Subjects:
Employee empowerment > economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781847208064.xml
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