Leadership for Competitive Advantage or Property Rights and Managerial Decisions

Leadership for Competitive Advantage

Author: Nick Georgiades

Virtually every organisation today realises the need to change in order to succeed. Success can only come through good management which, itself, needs to be driven by leaders. This book illustrates how a leader can systematically create a business that is better at satisfying customers, is more effective at using its human resources and is more rewarding to its owners. The authors achieve this by:
* looking at how a leader can best understand and quantify the pressures on the organisation from customers, shareholders and existing employees
* explaining how the leader can set about formulating a vision and strategy for the business which will respond to these pressures
* providing a prescription for defining the array of management practices needed to foster the organisational culture that is best able to facilitate the strategy.
This book provides the insights and practical tools for any leader to achieve competitive advantage in their organisation.

"This book draws from experience to create a path of light and logic through the most difficult of business territories-the territory of change. The authors maintain careful balance between the academic and the pragmatic, but with the obvious passion for the need to do something to bring the human element back into the world of work." Sir Colin Marshall, Chairman of British Airways and President of the CBI.

"For anyone interested in organizational transformation and the human spirit engaged in that pursuit, this is the book not just to read but to have by one's side. This book has the conceptual depth, the gift of clarity and the practical examples that should make it required reading for everyleader." Professor Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and author of Organizing Genius.

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Property Rights and Managerial Decisions: Comparative Theory and Policy

Author: Kathleen A Carroll

The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behavior. She compares the rights, incentives, and corresponding decision behavior in for-profit, nonprofit, and public organizations under conditions of unbounded rationality. She shows that managerial responses to regulation, tax, and industrial organization policies may differ from the usual predictions when property rights are considered. She also shows how property rights link economic and organization theory.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction and Overview	1
Pt. I	The Analytical Framework	11
2	The Economic Theory of Organizations: What It Is and What It Isn't	13
3	Efficient Decisions in Organizations and Social Welfare	27
4	Property Rights, Incentives, and Organizations	45
Pt. II	Managerial Decision Making in Alternative Organizations	59
5	Private For-Profit Organizations: the Firm	61
6	Public Sector Organizations: the Bureau	79
7	Nonprofit Organizations	93
8	Comparative Organizational Structures and Managerial Decisions	108
Pt. III	Policy Implications	127
9	Organizational Structure and Policy: Regulation and Taxation	129
10	Organizational Structure and Policy: Industrial Organization	148
11	Variations in Organizational Structures	164
Pt. IV	Additional Issues in Comparative Organizational Structure	183
12	Economic Theory of Organizations as a Social Science	185
13	Additional Issues in Economic Theory of Organizations	199
	Notes	208
	Bibliography	215
	Index	226