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traced to the differential organization of the coffee industry. We show that the different forms that the coffee economy took … laws resulted from differences in the nature of political competition. Our analysis suggests that explanations of …
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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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establishments, particularly for those practices involving data collection and analysis. …
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whether a problem is solved may all be unobservable. Our analysis considers these markets in a general equilibrium setting …, which allows us to address the selection of talent into occupations and their efficiency and distributional implications. We … efficiency can be attainable when experts can solve many problems. Even when the allocation is efficient, the asymmetry of …
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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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Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on …
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