Weshalb Organisation (wieder) ein Thema ist -- Bilder und Regeln von Organisation -- Die Design-Leiter -- Strategie und Kultur -- Produkte -- Prozesse -- Strukturen und Instrumente -- Typische Design-Muster aus der Praxis -- Anwendung der Design-Leiter.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Survey design and summary statistics -- Chapter 3. Innovation output -- Chapter 4. R&D organizational structure -- Chapter 5. Staged R&D project management -- Chapter 6. Incentive schemes -- Chapter 7. Risk preference, time preference, and corporate culture...

Part 1: Why Flat Structures Work at All -- Chapter 1: What does it mean to move towards a “flatter” structure? -- Chapter 2: What managers can effectively and efficiently delegate -- Chapter 3: Why would employees ever assume extra work in a decentralized organization? -- Part 2: What...

Mergers and acquisitions are a fast way for a firm to grow. Using plant-level data, we examine how firms redraw their boundaries after acquisitions. We find that there is a large amount of restructuring in a short period following mergers. Acquirers sell 27% and close 19% of acquired plants...

Einleitung -- Handlungsanleitung: Die Wahl der optimalen Organisationsform -- Organisatorische Grundlagen -- Organisation als Erfolgspotenzial und Kernkompetenz -- Anforderungen aus Rahmenbedingungen und Strategie -- Anforderungen aus Quellen organisatorischer Effizienz -- Verdichtung zu einem...

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...

Grundlagen der Organisationsgestaltung -- Statisches Konzept der Organisationsgestaltung – Ausschöpfung gegebener Handlungspotenziale -- Dynamisches Konzept der Organisationsgestaltung – Aufbau zukünftiger Handlungspotenziale

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

This survey provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research on information flows in corporations. It highlights key frictions preventing effective information flows and discusses how organizational structure and corporate governance can alleviate these frictions, focusing on three...

The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...