IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-01110-0_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Managerial Discretion, Organization Form, and the Multi-division Hypothesis

In: The Corporate Economy

Author

Listed:
  • Oliver E. Williamson

Abstract

Implicit in my previous research on the sources and consequences of managerial discretion [43], [46] has been the assumption that the firm is organized along the lines of what I will refer to here as the ‘unitary form’. Although the possibility of divisionalization was recognized and some of the organizational effects of divisionalization were briefly discussed ([43], pp. 120, 124, 160–1), these were left mainly undeveloped.

Suggested Citation

  • Oliver E. Williamson, 1971. "Managerial Discretion, Organization Form, and the Multi-division Hypothesis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robin Marris & Adrian Wood (ed.), The Corporate Economy, chapter 11, pages 343-386, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01110-0_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01110-0_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tomer, John F., 1995. "Strategy and structure in the human firm: Beyond hierarchy, toward flexibility and integration," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 24(3), pages 411-431.
    2. Paul Gooderham & Svein Ulset, 2002. "'Beyond the M-form': Towards a Critical Test of the New Form," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 117-138.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01110-0_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.