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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Overview of the theory and core definitions -- B Three analytical points and progress in connection with them -- Definitions and determinants of employees' discretion over an organization's resources and production -- A An organization's production functions, its production domains, and its employees' discretion over resource substitutions -- B Information about production domains -- Employees' resource diversions and employers' imposition of resource responsibility -- A Employees' resource diversions -- B Types of resource responsibility -- C The determination of cash salaries under overall value and specific responsibility and the supply of labor to the organization -- D Issues affecting the employer's optimal choices in imposing resource responsibility constraints -- Short-run resource allocation under fixed budgets -- A Resource allocation with a fixed budget and no spillovers under overall value responsiblity -- B Resource allocation with a fixed budget and no spillovers under specific responsibility -- C The coordination of employees' actions in relation to internal technological spillovers under each type of responsibility -- D Summary of demands for information and implications for the dispersion of information within the organization -- Short-run resource allocation in response to demand: the cases of an employee, a private corporation, and a private nonprofit organization -- A Costs to the employer and to the employee of the employee's delivered output and simplifying assumptions about these costs -- B Short-run resource allocation when an employee responds to a managing employee's demand -- C Short-run price, income, and output of the private corporation -- D Short-run resource allocation of the private nonprofit organization.