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Organizational Efficiency and Values
2006A brief look through West Churchman’s works suffices to see his concern for values and ethics in the behaviour of social organizations, be they political or of any other nature. Values are, in fact, what Churchmann stresses when he addresses the question of the problems facing the world, viewed as a political-social organization.
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Efficiency of Organizational Decisions
1989The theory of the firm acknowledges that as the firm grows in size there will be an emergence of (a) diffused ownership and separation of ownership and control, (b) nonprice competition dominating the operation of the market mechanisms and price strategies, and (c) a complex internal organization supplementing the market ...
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Efficient Organizational Design
1987We apply the methodology of statistical decision theory to the organizational design problem. The problem is to find a decision rule (q,d) and a management system k which minimize the risk. In this section, we state the “separation theorem” of the organization structure design problem and the management system design problem, which makes the ...
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Organizational efficiency: A review of the literature
2023Organisations are competing to survive and thrive in an increasingly volatile and fierce market environment. Organisational efficiency is an essential tool for the success of these organisations because it helps organisations in many ways. It facilitates comparisons across similar units and reveals variations in performance, thereby highlighting the ...
Kibirige, Ally Ramathan +3 more
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CONFIGURATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY.
Academy of Management Journal, 1993This study examined the relationship between various characteristics of organizations—including resource inputs, context, rules and regulations, goals, climate, and informal systems—and the effecti...
C. OSTROFF, N. SCHMITT
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Efficiency and Organizational Structure: A Study of Reverse LBOs
The Journal of Finance, 1990ABSTRACTThis paper is a report on 72 firms which went public since 1983 but previously underwent a full or divisional LBO. Accounting measures of performance reveal significant improvements in profitability which resulted mainly from these firms' ability to reduce costs.
Muscarella, Chris J +1 more
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Organizational Efficiency and X-Inefficiency
2014The works of Leibenstein emphasize the existence of x-inefficiency in organizations that explains why firms apparently identical, with the same composition of the workforce and the same technology, are able to realize very different performance. On the basis of Leibenstein and Maital (1994), this chapter presents the sources and reasons for the ...
Meryem El Alaoui Amine +1 more
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Optimizing Organizational Efficiency
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape—marked by advancing healthcare technologies, increasing operational and regulatory demands, an overburdened workforce, high patient volumes, growing disease complexity, and rising patient expectations—organizations face mounting pressure to deliver high-quality care efficiently.openaire +1 more source
IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Economy, Governance and Lave Basis, 2023openaire +1 more source
Some Remarks on Organizational Efficiencies
2018This chapter, mostly based on the work by Forrest and Orvis (Kybern Int J Cybern Syst Manag Sci 45:1308–1322, 2016), introduces two important principles of efficiency—management efficiency and organizational inefficiency. The former addresses the problem of how management efficiency can be achieved, while the latter investigates the structure of ...
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