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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

Almeida, Heitor - 2005

We provide a rationale for pyramidal ownership (the control of a firm through a chain of ownership relations) that departs from the traditional argument that pyramids arise to separate cash flow from voting rights. With a pyramidal structure, a family uses a firm it already controls to set up a...

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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1989

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...

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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms

Aghion, Philippe - 2013

of factors highlighted in the theory are shown to be important in accounting for delegation, such as heterogeneity and …

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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics : Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects

Kueng, Lorenz - 2014

-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … empirical successes and shortcomings of current theory. First, models of organizational capital and innovation are broadly … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …

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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels

Tong, Hui - 2011

How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory …

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Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management

Bolton, Patrick - 2008

What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. While learning helps...

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A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model

Imai, Susumu - 2008

This paper proposes a new test of the Protection for Sale (PFS) model by Grossman and Helpman (1994). Unlike existing methods in the literature, our approach does not require any data on political organizations. We formally show that the PFS model predicts that the quantile regression of the...

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The Choice of Organizational Form in Gasoline Retailing and The Costs of Laws Limiting that Choice

Blass, Asher - 1999

This paper uses a new data source to analyze the choice of organizational form of retail gasoline stations. In recent years, gasoline stations have tended to be less likely to be owned and operated by a lessee dealer and more likely to be owned and operated by the refiner. Critics have alleged...

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Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Redding, Stephen J. - 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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