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SET doesn’t explain what?

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firms profits in the long run, diversity of strategy, firm’s structure

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SET: why firms exist?

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(Coarse) firms reduce transaction costs, which cannot be reached through market transactions

For long-term transactions, when going to the market would be too bothersome

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Coarse Firm description

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a firm can be seen as an exchange place (as markets) where resources are exchanged, coordination is not done by prices but using authority.

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6 coordination mechanisms (organizational configurations) of Mitzberg

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  1. Direct supervision
  2. Standardization of work processes
  3. Standardization of outputs
  4. Standardization of skills/knowledge
  5. Standardization of norms
  6. Mutual ajustment
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Direct supervision (organizational mechanism)

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-One person gives orders to others, one step at a time
-Owner directs production and allocation of resources
-Authority as direct supervision
-Inefficient as organization grows

[Entrepreneurial organization]

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Standardization of work processes (organizational mechanism)

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  • “How to work” tutorials
  • production routines (leads to standard inputs)
    [Machine organization]
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Standardization of outputs (organizational mechanism)

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  • Specifies results but not the way they should be achieved
  • Output expectations for divisions but autonomy in how to reach these goals
    [Diversified organization]
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Standardization of skills (organizational mechanism)

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-Work coordinated by standard related training
-Well trained individuals
[Professional organization]

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Standardization of norms (organizational mechanism)

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-Norms (ideology) and same beliefs shared across organizational members
-Standardization of norms. Strong values and culture
[Missionary organization]

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Mutual adjustment (organizational mechanism)

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-informal communication, flexible structure, incouraged creativity and innovation
-trust-based organiozations
[innovative organizations]

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Downside of organizational specialization

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Silo effect

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Silo effect

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Consequence of overly specialized company.

Internal competition and asynchronized information on progress and actions

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Coordinator between agents

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Price system

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What solves information problems?

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Organizations

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Market

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Place that gives buyers and sellers possibility to trade

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Atomicity

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Many small buyers and sellers

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Economic problem

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situation where needs are not met as a result of scarcity of resources

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Optimal allocation

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Best use of scarced resources

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Economic aspect

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any situation where (optimal) use of resources is considered

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Division of labour

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splitting a task into seperate tasks

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Economies of specialization

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cost efficient economy in which division of labour takes place

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Exchange

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Transfer of the right to use goods or services

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Sufficient statistic

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all information delivered for a transaction to be made

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environment

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context of trade offs between market and organizational coordination

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SET stands for, and assumptions
Standard economic theory ideal markets, economic transactions between agents are coordinated by prices
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Agents
buyers and sellers
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Why agents are price takers?
They use an externally fixed price (demand=supply)
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Market price fairness
Market prices are by nature fair for all agents
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Agents behaviour in the exchange contract
Agents always behave as agreed. (otherwise costly penalties)
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Control of contracts
No cheating. no need for quality, delivery, conditions control
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Ideal market on these conditions:
Atomicity, Free entry and exit of firms, perfect information, product homogeneity
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Product homogeneity
standardized (alike) products
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Homo economicus (Economic person)
Fully rational, complete information, self-interested, no space for cooperation, ethics not considered
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Agents' goal
Wealth maximization. Attain specific goals to greatest extent at lowest possible cost
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Black boxes
Holistic entities without borders, single unified entity, no people inside the firm
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Ideal firm
Black box, any size, SINGLE goal (profit maximization), no strategy (adapt or die)
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Paradox of profits
firms cannot make any profit in the long run
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Firms' actions determined by?
Prices of inputs and outputs
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Changing firms' strategy
Results in death of firm. Adapt or die
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Isomorphism
Similarity of the processes or structure of one organization to those of another. Same input and output prices = same costs and profits for all. Same optimal behaviours and decisions = same structure
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Where does no room for differentiation lead to?
Isomorphism
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In what environment markets can operate?
1. conditions for markets to exist 2. markets shaped by pressures 3. is the selection mechanism for determining which markets can survive
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Impersonal exchange
Exchange between parties with no knowledge of each other and occurring over time and space
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What is the starting point of society
Division of labour
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Recite market/organization mix in order
Division of labour ⌄ Specialization ⌄ Coordination ⌄ ⌄ Market Organization ^ ^ Information ^ Environmental pressure and selection
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What are the ideal types of coordination of exchange transactions?
Markets and organizations
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Process of market interaction
Process of agents interacting and consequently creating demand/supply
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Law of demand
If prices go up, demand goes down
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Law of supply
If the prices go up, supply should rise as well
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Supply curve
Relationship between price and quantity supplied
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Market equilibrium
intersection point of demand curve (D) and supply curve (S)
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What happens to demand curve if demand rises not because of price related reasons? (E.G. war, population growth)
The whole demand curve shifts upwards, paralel to the old demand curve (P.S. - new equilibrium)
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Transitive
If agent chooses A over B, and B over C, they should choose A over C also
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Indifference curves
Curve showing agent's preference for different choices
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What does it mean if there are 2 choices of consumption bundles on the same indifference curve?
Agent prefers both of them equally (derives the same utilty)
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Utility
Satisfaction that consumers derive from having goods
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Budget line
All possible bundle combinations one can buy with given budget
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What is Production function and what does it describe?
Direct relation betwen quantity produced (Q), capital (K) and amount of labour (L). Describes combination of inputs (K and L) and output that firm can produce with those inputs
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Perfect competition
imaginary market condition where all consumers have access to the same products and information
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Pareto-optimal
Situation where no one can be made better off by changing the allocation of resources without anyone becoming worse off (It does not mean that everyone’s wants are satisfied to the same extent)
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coordination mechanism of enterpreneurial organization
Direct supervision
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coordination mechanism of machine organization
standardization of work processes
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coordination mechanism of professional organization
standardization of skills
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coordination mechanism of diversified organization
standardization of outputs
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coordination mechanism of innovative organization
mutual adjustment
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coordination mechanism of missionary organization
standardization of norms
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internal market of goods meaning
exchange of resources or goods within an organization from one division to another
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internal capital market meaning
corporate management where allocation of its funds are made to the divisions on the basis of those divisional plans that fit best with corporate policy and generate the highest returns
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internal labour market meaning
place where divisions compete for the best human resources and may also bid up their potential salaries
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Collusion
Conspiracies by the few suppliers in oligopolistic markets to set prices higher than would result under free market interaction
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Tacit collusion
Collusion without anything being said
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e-commerce
online retail
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
software used for managing internal operations (marketing, sales, product planning, inventory management)
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Platform organization
organization that predominantly uses a digital platform as coordinating mechanism
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Platform organization characteristics
Digital platforms can be easily explained Network effects accelerate the growth of platform organizations New and successful digital platforms give their platform organizations a first mover advantage Successful platform organizations achieve high market valuations
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Why successful platform organizations achieve high market valuations
Because of their exponential growth, but also because they can operate with relatively low costs

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