Operating Rules in Organizations

Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Analyses

B. Reynaud

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Année: 2002
• ISBN:
  9781403914422
• Sujet: Economics
• Sous-sujet: Econometrics

When economists claim that rules are coordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life. Rules do not indicate behaviour, since their most important characteristic is their remoteness from the solution. Thus, rules are merely frameworks for action requiring constant interpretation. This book is grounded in Wittgenstein's understanding of rules as having significance only in the course of their application. It focuses on two kinds of rules - macroeconomic and microeconomic - through detailed case studies of wage indexation and labour productivity.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Operating Rules in Organizations
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of Acronyms
• General Introduction
• 1 Trust and the Wage Relationship
• 2 Wage Disindexation in France and the Incompleteness of the Employment Contract
• 3 The Introduction of a Wage Bonus in a Workshop of the Paris Métro
• 4 Following the Rules: Definition and Practical Implications
• 5 How Rules Operate in Practice: the Team Productivity Bonus, Productivity and Work Quality at AME, 1992–2000
• 6 Rules, Routines and Habitus
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects