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Zur Dezentralisation von Entscheidungen : eine modellanalytische Studie
Jaspers, Jürgen - 1991
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Hierarchies and the Survival of Prisoners of War During World War II
Holderness, Clifford G.; Pontiff, Jeffrey - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 10, pp. 1873-1886
generally declines as the hierarchy of a prisoner's group becomes steeper or more closely matches the military's established … hierarchy. There is no evidence that survival is enhanced by being held in more hierarchical groups. One interpretation of these … findings that is consistent with survivors' accounts is that the military's hierarchy was too inflexible to adapt from the …
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie M. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237016
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment …, span of control increased by 6% and depth decreased by 11% as a result of the quasi-natural experiment. …
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Modeling Coordination in Organizations and Markets
Malone, Thomas W. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 10, pp. 1317-1332
This paper describes a simple set of coordination structures that model certain kinds of information processing involved in organizations and markets. Four generic coordination structures are defined: product hierarchies, functional hierarchies, centralized markets, and decentralized markets....
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ВЛИЯНИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ НА СТРОЕНИЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННОЙ СТРУКТУРЫ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ
ПОПОВА Л.Ф. - In: ВЕСТНИК САРАТОВСКОГО … (2012) 3, pp. 91-94
В статье представлен ситуационный подход к анализу организационной структуры предприятия. Целью данной работы является исследование природы технологий,...
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Wissensmanagement in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen. Systematische Gestaltung einer wissensorientierten Organisationsstruktur und -kultur (Knowledge Management in Small...
Staiger, Mark - Rainer Hampp Verlag
The growing demands on the availability competition-related knowledge is not only for large companies, but also for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) a challenge. Many SME try to bright this challenge through the use of new information and communication technologies. But this is not...
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The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
Colfer, Lyra J.; Baldwin, Carliss Y. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars in a range of disciplines...
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On economies of scope in communication
Marschak, Thomas - In: Review of Economic Design 2 (1996) 1, pp. 1-31
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