We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The...

Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten verändern sowohl Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (ICT) wie auch neue Organisationsgestaltungen das Arbeitsleben in Unternehmen. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Projekts war es, den Zusammenhang von technologischen Innovationen und organisatorischer Architektur...