Ownership and Control Flashcards

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why are all organisations classed as the same

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they evolve due to the fact that we cant solve all out problems alone

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2
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how do managers achieve their goals?

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using hierarchies, markets and networks

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3
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some argue that organisations differ greatly, what is their argument??

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the way in which organisations are owned and control creates vast differences in organisations

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what does this chapter look at?

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  • differences between private, public and voluntary sector
  • if differences in ownership matters
  • do other things such as stakeholders and environment matter more
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5
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what is property rights theory?

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  • focuses on ownership and the rights or entitlements with it
  • most important differences are between private, public and third sector, voluntary
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what is the private sector?

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organisations wonder by private individuals for any lawful purpose

givernance:
- soletrader/propetier/partnership
- private limited company
- public limited company

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who governs the private sector?

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companies house

registrar of companies

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what is the property rights theory for private sector?

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    • sole traders are personally liable
  • LTDand PLCs have steerage legal identity
  • directors have a fudiciary responsibility to act in the interests of the company - to maximise profits
  • PLCs allow shares to be traded
  • PRT suggests that owners (as owner managers or shareholders and managers) will ensure the value of assets is maximises
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what is the public sector?

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organisations owned by the state (and therefore ultimately citizen tax payers) to fulfil public functions

  • central and local gov
  • agencies
  • NDPB / Quangos
  • public corporations
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how is the public sector regulated?

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democratically and politicians

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what is the property rights theory for public sector?

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  • public sector provides these collective goods through taxation as the free market under provide public and merit goods
  • right tax service package will improve economic efficiency
  • PRT suggest that the owners (tax payers) will require politicians to deliver the best (most efficient) tax service package
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what is the difference between merit and public goods?

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public goods are ones in which their consumption does not affect quantity available to next person

merit goods include things such as healthcare and education (things government think will under consume)

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what is the voluntary sector?

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  • public benefit requirement
  • owned in trust beneficiaries
  • governed by trustees
  • non distribution of profit clause
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14
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who is the regulator of voluntary sector?

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charity commission

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what doe sth property rights theory say about the voluntary sector?

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  • VS meet needs not met by either the free market or the state
  • demand side (weisband)
  • supply side (Hansmann)
  • PRT suggest that donors will want to maximise the efficacy of they gift
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16
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what is hetroegenity theory?

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unsatisfied demand for public and quasi pubic goods in situations of demand herogenty leads to emergence of non profit orgs

17
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what is meany by heterogeneity?

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the quality of being diverse in content

18
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what is the supply side theory (Hansmann)

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non profit organisations are a reflection of demand hentrogenity, served and created by entrepreneurs seeking to maximise non monetary returns

19
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what did Bearle 1932 argue about ownership/

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that ownership didn’t mean control

prime force motivating control is personal profit, interests of control are different from and often radically opposed to those of ownership

  • shareholders vs stakeholders
  • [referred shareholders
  • only for larger companies
20
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does organisational ownership matter?

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can affect the input and output regarding the quality

21
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what is sector blurring?

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developments that are blurring the distinction between sectors

22
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what are the ways in which sector blurring is occurring?

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  • imitation
    non proft starts to adopt and act the same as profit
  • interaction
    competition, contractors and collaboration
  • intermingling
    when non profit organisations own for profit organisations such as universities, make investments trough
  • industry creation
    such as coop bank
23
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why might sector blurring be wrong?

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evidence suggests that

  • public organisations are more bureaucratic
  • public managers are less materialistic
  • organisations commitment is weaker in the public sector

‘public sectors are distinctive’ - Boyne 2002

24
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why might ownership not matter?

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other things such as stakeholders (stakeholder theory) and environment (invisible hand) - we all contribute to the regulation f the free market so does individual ownership matter