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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...
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Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm's employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...
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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 labor is...
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Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and …
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"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
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firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile … management, suggesting this performance-pay relationship arises from more aggressive monitoring and incentive practices for top …
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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …
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We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …
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. It reduces organizing success by lowering profits, thus giving management a greater incentive to oppose unions. It shows … that in the traditional monopoly model, any given premium can cause management to donate more resources to opposing a union …
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