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Allocation of Authority when a Person is not a Robot

Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We formalize a conception of authority, which is commonly defined as the right of controlling a personâ€™s actions embedded in human assets in sociology. Due to the inalienable property of human assets, the contractible formal authority is hard to verify and enforce, while real authority...

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Power Inside the Firm and the Market: A General Equilibrium Approach

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

equilibrium when competition is not too tough and not too weak. The model predicts merger waves or waves of outsourcing when …

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Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms

Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the … competitiveness of the offshoring firms. We show further that the offshoring of managerial tasks relaxes the constraint on managers …

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Externalities, Communication and the Allocation of Decision Rights

Bester, Helmut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the organization. When only decision rights can be contractually assigned to one of the organizationâ€™s stakeholders, the optimal assignment minimizes the resulting inefficiencies...

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A New International Division of Labor in Europe: Outsourcing and Offshoring to Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

of intrafirm imports from that region. These factors also favor outsourcing over offshoring. In contrast, low … alternative suppliers in Eastern Europe) favor offshoring over outsourcing. Tax holidays granted by host countries in Eastern … share of intrafirm trade between Austria or Germany on the one hand and Eastern Europe on the other. Furthermore, I present …

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Moral Hazard and the Internal Organization of Joint Research

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004We address the question of how the internal organization of partnerships can be affected by moral hazard behavior of their division(s)/agent(s). We explore cases where two entregreneurs, each employing one agent subject ot...

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Canâ€™t Buy Me Rights! The Contractual Structure of Asymmetrical Inter-firm Collaborations

Häussler, Carolin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The efficient allocation of control rights in inter-firm collaborations is a widely emphasized issue. In this paper, I empirically identify control rights and the allocation of these rights using a unique survey data set on collaborations between biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms. Fifteen...

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Globalization and the Empowerment of Talent

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

integration is shown to lead to waves of outsourcing and to convergence in corporate cultures across countries. …

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Risk Taking in Winner-Take-All Competition

Kräkel, Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Przemeck, Judith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players. At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoretically and then tested by...

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When is FDI a Capital Flow?

Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of...

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