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Positional Wages, Market Wages and Firm Size

van den Brink, Rene; Ruys, Pieter H.M. - 2005

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The … governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the …

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Global power shifts and the future of democracy: An evolutionary approach, with special attention to China

Owen, John M. - 2016

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

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Agent-based models of organizations

Chang, Myong-hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - 2004

An organization is a collection of agents that interact and produce some form of output. Formal organizations - such as corporations and governments - are typically constructed for an explicit purpose though this purpose needn’t be shared by all organizational members. An entrepreneur who...

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Organization of innovation in a multi-unit firm: Coordinating adaptive search on multiple rugged landscapes

Chang, Myong-hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - 2000

In Chang and Harrington (2000a) a computational model of a multi-unit firm is developed in which unit managers continually search for better practices Search takes place over a rugged landscape defined over the space of unit practices There it is shown that a more centralized organization is...

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Use of Interorganisational Systems: An Empirical Analysis

Hoppe, Mirko; Schramm, Hans-Joachim - 2004

Electronic linkages between organisations enabled by interorganisational information systems (IOS) such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet- based applications or cargo community systems are becoming increasingly important. Recently, many studies have examined the impact of electronic...

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Imperfect Monitoring of Monitoring Agents: One Reason Why Hierarchies Can Be Superior to "Lean" Organizations

Kirstein, Roland - 2003

Effective monitoring requires proper incentives and detection skill. Detection skills depend on the extent of specialization in monitoring and on the number of agents to be supervised. This paper demonstrates that hierarchy and monitoring of monitors can provide the necessary incentives for the...

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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...

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Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies

Meyer, Jenny - 2007

For the first time data of German ICT and knowledge intensive service providers are used to analyze the relation between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with a higher share of younger employees are more likely to...

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Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies

Meyer, Jenny - 2008

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Incentive compability of dual transfer pricing

Carstens, Stefan; Weinem, Michael - 2000

We examine the implementation of efficient decisions about accepting a special order with asymmetric information by means of a dual transfer pricing mechanism based on Ronen and McKinney (1970). The model is designed in a simple fashion, two vertically related divisions within a firm...

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