Organizational Economics: The Formation of Wealth integrated the process concepts of Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations..." with concepts and ideas from the disciplines of geography (space), history (time), anthropology (culture and politics), and organizational control (leadership, governance, and policy management) to transform microeconomics and macroeconomics into a single theory. It does this using a Systems Engineering/System Architecture/ Enterprise Architecture/process engineering approach to unify these concepts. It demonstrates how organizations create value for their customers and themselves, and how exploitation of this value destroys the organizations. Because the theory documented in this book is so wide ranging, it includes concepts from such authors as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Arnold Toynbee, Stephen Covey, J. P. Womack and D. T. Jones, Jonathan Swift, Bruce Catton, R. R. Riech, W. J. Barber, Phil Crosby, Michael Hammer, Stephen Hawking, G. Hamel and C. Prahalad, Tom Clancy with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), N. Ferguson, Daniel J. Boorstin, T. Kuhn, Lao Tzu, T. G. Buchholz, Tom Peters, John Naisbitt, Charles Darwin, G. Landis, J. Diamond, N. Wade, John Campbell, and many others. Organizational Economics is divided into four parts. Part 1 briefing outlines the growth of economics and business architectural modeling from the time of Adam Smith to the current era and describes the current state of economic theory that provides several incomplete models, including the model of Capitalism. Part 2 defines and delimits the functional components of the economic model of the organization that produces the same results as all of the current models. It shows how this new model, based on the IDEF0 organization architectural pattern applies equally well to individuals, small organizations, large organization, and the global community. Part 3 discusses the consequences of this organizational model when applied to the past and current environment. These consequences will include the development of a new model of history, a discussion of the various forms of religious and secular Utopias, and a model of law and government, all based on the organizational model of economics. Part 4 will discuss Utopias and near Utopian organizations and how "government" works within organizational economics-completing the "Political Economics" discipline in which Adam Smith would feel (or almost feel) at home.
Dr. Robert S. Ellinger holds a PhD. in spatial economic theory from the University of Iowa. While this is his first book, he has published many papers and made many presentations on a wide variety of topics, mostly in the area of process engineering, process architecture, systems engineering, and spatial modeling. Dr. Ellinger first touched a "computer" in 1956 and has worked with IT systems continuously since 1964. His dissertation was the first at the University of Iowa completely done and documented using an IT system; he created a large spatial economic and marketing model for his research and published the results on a word processing system he helped create. In the 1980s Dr. Ellinger architected, designed, and helped implement a paperless shop floor manufacturing system that won the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Lead award. Since 1986, Dr. Ellinger has worked in the US defense industry. He has served as National Lead Systems Engineer and Technical Fellow, and Chief Software Architect for the internal information systems organization at a major defense contractor. He currently serves as a Systems/Process Engineer and Enterprise Architect for a mid-sized defense related organization. Dr. Ellinger has supported many committees of standards organizations including IT sub-committees of the Aerospace Industry Association, The Virtual Extended Enterprise committee of the Agility Forum, The DoD Strategic Supply Chain program, The Next Generation Manufacturing Program, The OSI (MAP/TOP) users group, and the OASIS SOA Reference Model technical committee.
