Theory of the Firm and Corporate Culture

这一提议的目的是为企业文化的出现及其影响提供一个经济学解释。在本研究的背景下，企业文化被定义为公司员工共享的共同语言或行为准则，而这些语言或行为准则不会被公司外部的人共享。将采用几种方法来分析企业文化，这些方法试图用经济术语来翻译来自与组织行为有关的其他学科的见解。一种方法将关注企业文化的认知方面，即组织成员共享的代码、事实和规则的知识。另一种方法将强调企业文化的激励方面，它使用重叠博弈的框架来模拟组织价值观在其成员变化时的稳定性。最后，这些模型被用于检查合并的成本和收益，并试图将所有权不稳定可以限制员工对公司特定知识和工作技能的投资这一概念正式化。这个项目很重要，因为它可以提供对决定组织有效性的因素的更基本的理解。

The purpose of this proposal is to provide an economic explanation for the emergence of, and the effects, corporate culture. In the context of this research, corporate culture is defined as the common language or code of conduct shared by employees of the firm, which are not shared by those outside the firm. Several approaches to analyzing corporate culture will be undertaken, which attempt to translate in economic terms the insights derived from other disciplines concerned with organizational behavior. One approach will focus on the cognitive aspects of corporate culture, the knowledge of codes, facts, and rules shared by the members of the organization. Another approach will emphasize the incentive aspects of corporate culture, which uses the framework of overlapping games to model the stability of organizational values while its members change. Finally, these models are applied to examining the costs and benefits of mergers, and to try and formalize the notion that ownership instability can limit the investment of employees in firm-specific knowledge and job skills. This project is important because it may provide a more fundememtal understanding of the factors that determine the effectiveness of organizations.