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How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …
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traced to the differential organization of the coffee industry. We show that the different forms that the coffee economy took …
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management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then …
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This Paper proposes a theory of the optimal organization of delegated expertise. For incentive purposes, a principal …
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This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an … equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law …
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and contract theory, applying organization theories in labor economics, and using these theories to interpret the wealth …
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In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance to the next round of competition) by losing instead of winning a game. Starting with a real-world example, we demonstrate that the existing national rules of awarding places...
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The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured management practices are tightly linked to higher levels...
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The economy is experiencing a large shift towards professional services. Markets for these services are characterized by large information asymmetries: the difficulty in providing the necessary advice, the quality of the advice, and whether a problem is solved may all be unobservable. Our...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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