Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization - Eliasson, Gunnar

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Résumé :
The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolution of the information products over the past twenty years, the results presented indicate that information and communication firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle, which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own needs.

Biographie:
Gunnar Eliasson is professor em of Industrial Economics/Dynamics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm . He is an associate senior researcher at the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. He was previously president of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI) in Stockholm and before that Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Policy Department at the Federation of Swedish Industries. From 1994 to 1996 he was the President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. He is the father of the Swedish micro to macro simulation model MOSES and the theory of the Experimentally Organized Economy and of Competence Blocs. He has published many books and many journal articles in the fields of industrial economics, the theory of the firm, business economic planning and management, labor and education economics and simulation modeling. Among the books can be mentioned Business Economic Planning (1976), Technological Competition and Trade in the Experimentally Organized Economy (1987), The Knowledge Based Information Economy (1990) , Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization (1996) and The Birth, the Life and the Death of Firms (2005). Together with his wife Ulla he has authored a study on the 15^th century art markets in Northern Italy and Florence (1997). Gunnar Eliasson?s current research is focused on the economics of the firm and management, technology, entrepreneurship and economic development and on the competence demands on the labor markets of the New Economy....

Sommaire:
I Theory.- I The Economics of Innovation, Coordination, Selection, and Knowledge Transfer.- II The Organization of Production, Markets and Administrative Control Systems -- A General Theory of Innovation and Information, or the Experimentally Organized Economy.- III The Firm as an Experimental Machine -- Its Decision Problem.- II Practice.- IV The Firm -- Its Control System in Practice.- V The Universal Information System -- a Fantasy or a Feasible New Product?.- VI The Experimental Evolution of a New Information Product.- III A Chronicle of Events That Mark the Experimental Evolution of a New Information Product.- VII Systems Components and the New Information Product Defined.- Supplement 1 Office automation and business information systems market -- announcement of entry.- Supplement 2 Spin-off, start-up and major innovations chronology.- Supplement 3 Interviewed firms.