A monopolist is treated as a nexus of contracts with team production. It has one ownermanager. The owner-manager is the employer of two employees. A team production problem is present if the employer is a "managerial lemon". If the team production problem is solved, the employer is a "managerial...

The profitability of a firm is jointly determined by it's organizational structure and the market structure. To explore the effects of market factors on optimal organizational structure we develop a real-time information processing model of a multi unit firm in a dynamic duopoly environment. Our...

This paper analyzes the structure of retail markets by highlighting the differential pattern exhibited across local markets by two different types of firm organization: chain stores versus stand-alone stores. Data from retail alcoholic beverage industry in California suggest that the number of...

A monopolist is treated as a nexus of contracts with team production. It has one ownermanager. The owner-manager is the employer of two employees. A team production problem is present if the employer is a "managerial lemon". If the team production problem is solved, the employer is a "managerial...

This paper examines the organizational forms of Islamic banks, corporate governance mechanism, and their effects on organizational behavior, specifically relating to managerial expense preferences. The paper opted for an OLS cluster regression and followed by a stochastic frontier approach test...

Auch nach Einführung von dezentralisierten Unternehmen mit Strategischen Geschäftseinheiten als Profit-Center, deren Leiter erfolgsabhängig entlohnt werden, dafür aber auch beträchtliche Entscheidungsautonomie zugebilligt bekommen haben, beobachtet man, daß Manager kein wertsteigerndes...