Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture Review

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(More customer reviews)Besides being a well organized and example-packed textbook, I found Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture to be a compact MBA refresher course -- and a useful reference for day-to-day problems. Thinking about business organizations as rational individuals responding to incentives and new information simply fits the facts. The three basic elements developed in this book allow managers to translate this logical thinking into operational decisions: allocating decision rights, measuring performance, and compensating individuals and groups. The power of this approach in analyzing common management problems equips the reader with a rich set of tools for identifying and solving them.

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"Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture, 5e" helps the student to gain an understanding of the basic tools of economics used to solve important business problems. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the firm and corporate governance topics. The fifth edition has an improved focus on decision-making and managerial applications, within the structure of an organization.

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Corporate Information Strategy and Management: The Challenges of Managing in a Network Economy (Paperback version) Review

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(More customer reviews)Just read this book as part of an IT Policy course. Although this edition does not come with the cases, we downloaded cases from Harvard Business School directly.
The three authors are very well known, McFarlan having developed much of the theory in use in the field of IT policy management. The material is readily consumable, and it contains enough explanation of the technical jargon to satisfy even the most Luddite reader.
I found that the book did a very good job of outlining concerns in today's IT field: outsourcing, project management, security, and IT portfolio managment, as well as key business theory like Porter's five forces and McFarlan's strategic grid.
If you need to know about the theory of IT strategic management, this book is for you. If you need real-world examples, I recommend buying the hardcover version that includes the cases.
The only reason I do not award this book five stars is because the layout of the book is very 80s; the font is small and the overall look and feel is very dated.

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Corporate Information Strategy and Management:The Challenges of Managing in the Internet Age, 6/E is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology (IT) management.It explains the relevant issues of effective management of information services activities and highlights the areas of greatest potential application of the technology.No assumptions are made concerning the reader's experience with IT, but it is assumed that the reader has some course work or work experience in administration or management.It is a paperback derivative product that contains the same text portion found in Corporate Information Strategy and Management:Text and Cases, 6/e, but without the Harvard cases.

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