The Logic of Bureaucratic Conduct: An Economic Analysis of Competition, Exchange, and Efficiency in Private and Public Organizations

by Ronald Wintrobe and Albert Breton

Book Overview

In this work the authors present a general theory of bureaucracy and use it to explain behaviour in large organizations and to explain what determines efficiency in both governments and business corporations. The theory uses the methods of standard neoclassical economic theory. It relies on two central principles: that members of an organization trade with one another and that they compete with one another. Authority, which is the basis for conventional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521245893
• ISBN13: 9780521245890
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"