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Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - University of Bonn, Germany - 2013
The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...
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Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper analyzes the choice of organizational structure as solution to the trade-off between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a top manager and two division heads. If it is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699425
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Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632999
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Queues and Hierarchies
Beggs, Alan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
This paper examines the optimal structure of hierarchies when workers differ in the range of tasks they can perform. A hierarchical system may reduce costs by allowing most tasks to be handled by unskilled workers. This may however increase delay for those tasks which must pass through several...
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Pianificazione, mercato e organizzazioni in Herbert A. Simon
FIORI, Stefano - In: Rivista Italiana degli Economisti 13 (2008) 3, pp. 435-435
decisional systems alternative to the market, from planning to organizations. This issue emerges from the convergence of four … in his scientific interests and methods, the conviction that planning and organizations as decentralized structures can …
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Knowledge Work and Organisational Learning
Elkjær, Bente - Copenhagen Business School - 2000
In this paper it is argued that the terms, knowledge work, knowledge workers, and <p> knowledge intensive firms point to emerging social structures and processes in <p> organisations. This focus allows us to analyse organisations in ways that differ <p> from the notions involving less dynamic forms of...</p></p></p>
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Perspectivas Teóricas sobre a Relação das Organizações com o Meio Ambiente
Serrano, Maria Manuel - Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das … - 2012
This work aims to discuss the theoretical perspectives interested in studying the relationship between organizations … relationship between organizations and environment and any kind of external influence on the functioning of organizations …. Subsequently, the application of systemic theory to the study of organizations promotes the notion of open system and the …
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Moral Hazard and the Internal Organization of Joint Research
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
to what would be socially optimal. A restriction on the number of agents to be kept in a partnership would induce too few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785833
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Biased Contests and Moral Hazard: Implications for Career Profiles
Meyer, Margaret A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
We study the design of a sequence of two contests between a pair of identical risk averse employees whose effort choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner - the reduction in second-period incentives is outweighed...
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Modes of Governance in Business Process Outsourcing : Equity Control or Tradability of Services? An Executive versus Market's Perspective
Mattig, Andreas Walter - 2008
quot;Outsourcing success - it's all in Governancequot; reported Lauren Bielski in the ABA Banking Journal 2006 and consequently, governance represents the key concept when discussing outsourcing in practice.However, when analyzing the business process outsourcing practice of Swiss Retail Banks,...
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