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The governance of not-for-profit organizations
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480759
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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving … management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in … control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453465
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Organizations and Trade
Antràs, Pol - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464387
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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory
Henderson, Rebecca - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466822
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter - 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 labor is...
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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
Rebitzer, James B. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461123
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Managers and the Management of Organizations
Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and …
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. (contributor); Morck, Randall (contributor) - 2013
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Government and Health Outcomes
Grossman, Michael - 1981
In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and infant mortality, and government regulation of teenage smoking. My review is selective and is based on my own research. It is neutral with respect to the question of whether the...
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Sharing a Government
Ventura, Jaume - 2019
This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...
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