The Modern Firm

Economist 12/16/04 In praise of the modern firm
What was the best book about business published in the past 12 months?

This reviewer's choice as the best book of the year, however, goes to a slim volume put out by Oxford University Press that deserves to be a classic. “The Modern Firm”, written by John Roberts, an economics professor at Stanford Business School, lays out in wonderfully lucid and jargon-free language a framework for thinking about corporate structure, given that “any organisation is multifaceted, and the range of organisational variables is mind-boggling”.