Exit Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States - Couverture souple

Hirschman, Albert O.

 
9780674276604: Exit Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
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ISBN 10 : 0674276604 ISBN 13 : 9780674276604
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1972

Synopsis

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, "exit," is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, "voice," is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change "from within." The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role.

The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, "having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of 'unhappy' top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little."

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À propos de l'auteur

Albert O. Hirschman was Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, following a career of prestigious appointments, honors, and awards. Perhaps the most widely known and admired of his many books are Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Harvard) and The Passions and the Interests (Princeton).

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
1972
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674276604
ISBN 13 
9780674276604
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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9780674276505: Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0674276507 ISBN 13 :  9780674276505
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1970
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