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Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics

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Ilan, Benjamin Y. - 1985

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Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm

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Protection and international sourcing

Ornelas, Emanuel (contributor); Turner, John L. (contributor) - 2008

We study the impact of import protection on relationship-specific investments, organizational choice and welfare. We show that a tariff on intermediate inputs can improve social welfare through mitigating hold-up problems. It does so if it discriminates in favor of the investing party, thereby...

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The distinct effects of information technology and communication technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the informationʺ and communicationʺ components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...

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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Sadun, Raffaella (contributor) - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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Theories of heterogeneous firms and trade

Redding, Stephen - 2010

"This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...

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Anatomy of a paradox : management practices, organisational structure and energy efficiency

Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; De Preux, Laure B.; … - 2010

official business microdata. We find that ‘climate friendly’ management practices are associated with lower energy intensity … variation in management practices across firms can be explained in part by organizational structure. Firms are more likely to … adopt climate friendly management practices if climate change issues are managed by the environmental or energy manager, and …

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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010

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