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The firm as a pool of factor complementarities

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003

This paper presents a new approach to the theory of the firm by identifying factor complementarities as central to the …

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - 2009

share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on …

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Ownership strategies in post-financial crisis Southeast Asia: The case of Japanese firms

Kawai, Norifumi; Jonas, Manja - 2007

Existing research on entry mode determinants is firmly grounded in the transaction cost and resource-based literature while location-and institution-specific characteristics lack attention. The primary goal of this article is to address the determinants of entry mode by Japanese manufacturing...

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Externalities, communication and the allocation of decision rights

Bester, Helmut - 2005

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the organization. When only decision rights can be contractually assigned to one of the organization's stakeholders, the optimal assignment minimizes the resulting inefficiencies by...

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Division of labor, organizational coordination and markt mechanism in collective problem-solving

Marengo, Luigi; Dosi, Giovanni - 2003

This paper builds upon a view of economic system and individual economic organization as problem-solving arrangements and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error and collective selection. The institutional structure, and in particular its degree of...

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Consistency in Organization

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2003

Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm?s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson?s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some theoretical foundation. At the same time, the consistency view can be applied to a number of...

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Cournot Competition between Teams: An Experimental Study

Schipper, Burkhard C.; Raab, Philippe - 2004

In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modeled as single decision makers and the internal organization of the firm is neglected (unitary player assumption). However, as the literature on strategic delegation suggests, one can not generally expect that the behavior of...

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Community Enterprises: An institutional innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce … organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined. …

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Consistency in organization (updated)

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011

modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …

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Consistency in Organization

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2008

modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The idea is developed by starting from … Williamson's discussion of idiosyncratic exchange. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm … of incentives, or the role of routines. It implies a “perceptional” theory of the firm that is “realistic” in the sense …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427523

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