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We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal...
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Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...
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procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccines that can practically guide government procurement decisions. Our analysis yields 4 novel findings. First, the need to …
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firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … the relationship between expertise and device procurement patterns. Hospitals affiliated with the top Academic Medical …
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The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with weaker enforcement. Specifically, we document that in...
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In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
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This paper applies ideas from mechanism design to model procurement of prescription drugs. We present a mechanism for … government-funded market-driven drug procurement that achieves very close to full static efficiency -- all members have access to …
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Procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications are changed and refined after … and local market power, which are the focus on much of the literature on optimal procurement mechanisms, are much smaller …
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