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The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2005
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415696
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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006117
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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
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities … design ; functions ; centralization ; M-form ; hierarchy ; top management team ; information technology ; activities …
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Culture of trust and division of labor
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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Division of labour and directed production
Ratto, Marisa (contributor); Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2005
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011512
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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Marschke, Gerald (contributor) - 2008
We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782448
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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...
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Multitasking and wages
Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - 2013
within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753769
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Consistency in organization (updated)
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011
modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …
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