Theory of the Firm and Corporate Culture

这一建议的目的是提供一个经济解释， 企业文化的产生及其影响。 背景下 在本研究中，企业文化被定义为共同语言， 或公司员工共享的行为准则，这些准则 公司外的人分享。 分析的几种方法 企业文化将进行，这试图在翻译 经济学术语从其他相关学科中获得的见解 组织行为。 一种方法将侧重于认知 企业文化的各个方面，代码，事实和规则的知识 由组织成员分享。 另一种方法将 强调企业文化的激励方面， 重叠博弈框架对组织稳定性的建模 价值观，而其成员的变化。 最后，将这些模型应用于 审查合并的成本和收益，并尝试 所有权不稳定可能限制投资的概念， 员工在公司的具体知识和工作技能。 这个项目是 重要是因为它可以提供一个更基本的理解 决定组织有效性的因素。

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.