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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition

Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...

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Diversity in Organizations

Mello, Antonio S; Ruckes, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

groups depends on the leader's authority to make personnel decisions, especially whether the leader can replace team members …

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Optimal Information Management: Organizations versus Markets

Castanheira, Micael; Leppämäki, Mikko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

full authority over the agents, or they hand over this authority to an outside supplier by outsourcing these activities. By … incorporating authority in a stylized model of information processing, we endogenize the comparative advantage of each form of … authority is optimal. We also show which tasks should be outsourced to align the preferences of the outside supplier with those …

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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs...

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Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.

Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication …

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Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Cai, Hongbin; Li, Hongbin; Park, Albert; Zhou, Li-An - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more...

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The Impact of Organizational Structure and Lending Technology on Banking Competition

Degryse, Hans; Laeven, Luc; Ongena, Steven - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

communication technology, have a wider span of organization, and are further removed from a decision unit with lending authority …

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...

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Externalities, Communication and the Allocation of Decision Rights

Bester, Helmut - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the … organization's decisions. Under asymmetric information, the efficient allocation of authority depends on the communication of …

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Information and Control in Alliances and Ventures

Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The allocation of control rights in a venture does not matter if partners have congruent preferences. This Paper develops a theory of control as a signal of congruence, and applies it to the structure of alliances between a privately informed ‘entrepreneur’ (technology firm) and an...

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