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The embeddedness of US multinational companies in the US business system: implications for HR/IR
Ferner, Anthony - Leicester Business School - 2000
The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...
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Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - London School of Economics and Political Science; J. L. …
This paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine lawfirms' field boundaries. We find that the share of lawyers working in field-specializedfirms increases as market size increases and lawyers field-specialize, indicating thattransaction costs among lawyers, and not...
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Language and the Theory of the Firm
Crémer, Jacques; Criscuolo, Chiara; Prat, Andrea - Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail; University …; … - 2006
An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is un-derstood by its members but not by others. We develop a theory of optimalorganizational languages and identify a key trade-o¤ between facilitatinginternal communication and encouraging communication with other...
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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization
Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically thatthese have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wageinequality....
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Keeping it in the family – The relative importance of strategic internal and external relationships in corporate entrepreneurship
Tunstall, Richard; Thomas, Brychan - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2002
plots the vectors into which an organisation can sit withregard to its strategic decisions on developing corporate … entrepreneurship and the subsequentrelationships necessary for successful implementation.There are several options an organisation can … appreciation in the case studies of the importance of relationships with outsiders tothe organisation in developing venture …
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Field Experiments with Firms
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questionsrelating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within andacross firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firmsgenerally aim to shed light on...
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Discussion of "Measuring organizational capital"
Brenner, Steffen; Schwalbach, Joachim - Institut für Management <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> - 2009
Ludewig and Sadowski (2009) empirically examine the economic value of organizationalcapital. They use a comprehensive panel data set from the Institute for EmploymentResearch (IAB) that provides standard information about inputs and outputs of theproduction process of German corporate...
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From group selection to organizational interactors
Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Knudsen, Thorbjørn - 2007
This paper builds on previous work within the conceptual framework of a generalized Darwinism that clarifies such concepts as selection and replication. One of its aims is to refine the concept of the interactor. An overview of the conditions under which group selection may occur helps us...
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Modelling business processes for the purpose of redesign
Dietz, Jan L. G. - 1994
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Sunk costs and market structure : price competition, advertising, and the evolution of concentration
Sutton, John - 1991
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