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Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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The interplay between organizational structure, culture and employees' socio-emotional skills within their social capital

Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022

Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...

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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …

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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study

Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …

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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system

Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....

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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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Authority and incentives in organizations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2013

The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...

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The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option

Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...

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Measuring organizational capital in the new economy

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2005

A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm's organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...

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Aligning ambition and incentives

Koch, Alexander K. (contributor); … - 2005

In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and has profound implications for the design of incentive contracts. We show that the principal...

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