Effective and Efficient Organisations? : Government Export Promotion in Germany and the UK from an Organisational Economics Perspective /
By: Hauswirth, Iris A [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: BookSeries: Contributions to Economics: Publisher: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2006.Description: XII, 252 p. 15 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783790817317.Subject(s): Economic policy | Economics | Economic PolicyDDC classification: 338.9 Online resources: Click here to access onlineItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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E books | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | Available | EBK5779 |
The context -- Efficient and effective organisations — Approaches in organisational economics -- Incentives, knowledge and adaptability -- The research design -- The organisation of trade fair support in Germany -- The organisation of trade fair support in the United Kingdom -- Organisation matters.
Using organisational economics theory, the author develops a conceptual framework for analysing the effectiveness and efficiency of public services delivery. In applying the framework to case studies of export support organisations in Germany and the UK , the research establishes the causal links between organisational structures and outputs. The decisive variables are knowledge and incentives of the actors, and adaptability of the organisation. Since there are trade-offs between the variables, the findings help to explain why one organisation may be different from, but equally effective and efficient as another, and why, despite ongoing re-structuring of public and private sector organisations, no panacea for an effective and efficient organisation has been found. The analytical framework also provides a means for examining existing organisations and blueprints of future organisations, allowing for conclusions about improvability and the implications of change.
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