We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

Kompakte Einführung unter Berücksichtigung informaler Prozesse - mit Lösungen für Fragestellungen aus der Praxis Das Lehrbuch bietet eine kurz gefasste Einführung in die Grundfragen des Themenfeldes der Organisation. Es behandelt dabei neben der formalen Seite des Organisierens auch die in...

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm production...

Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...

Wie können Unternehmen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung wirtschaftlich und nachhaltig auf Kundenbedürfnisse eingehen? Warum spielt die Struktur eines Unternehmens eine bedeutende Rolle, um Wertschöpfung und echte Wirksamkeit zu erreichen? Die Autoren gehen diesen beiden Fragen nach....