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Antràs, Pol - 2008

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory

Henderson, Rebecca - 2005

Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm's employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...

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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

Rebitzer, James B. - 2011

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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Managers and the Management of Organizations

Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth

Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

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Creativity Under Fire : The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

Gross, Daniel P. - 2018

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …

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Giorcelli, Michela - 2020

's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …

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Understanding Creativity

Galenson, David W. - 2010

range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …

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As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?

Jones, Benjamin - 2010

Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...

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