Explores the question of how specialist expertise is related to the organizational decision‐making process. This relationship is seen as an important issue in the integration of HRM with corporate strategy, and as having implications for HRM concerns with organizational and career structure,...

Objective of this work is to investigate the structural change and economic dynamics of farms pursuing diversification and differentiation strategies in Italy. The analysis was performed on a panel of data built on the basis of information collected by the Italian FADN between 2003-2009. For the...

We study the design of a sequence of two contests between a pair of identical risk averse employees whose effort choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner - the reduction in second-period incentives is outweighed...