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Wer soll die Bürger im Staat repräsentieren?
Blankart, Charles B.; Mueller, Dennis C. - In: ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 15, pp. 31-34
Die Bürgerinnen und die Bürger können im Staat nicht alles selbst entscheiden. Sie brauchen Repräsentanten. Charles B. Blankart, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Universität Luzern, und Dennis C. Mueller, Universität Wien, stellen in ihrem Kommentar fünf Regierungsmodelle vor und...
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Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales
Lindo, Jason M.; Siminski, Peter; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2014
the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative …
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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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Joint determination of internal organizational design: Decision-making, task allocation, and incentive scheme
Kim, Son Ku; Ryu, Keunkwan - 2001
This paper studies the issue of designing an optimal organizational form: design for sub-units' task allocation, decision-making structure, and incentive schemes for organizational members. Depending on the way tasks are allocated between the sub-units, and whether decision-making is centralized...
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A double moral hazard model of organization design
Berkovitch, Elazar; Israel, Ronen; Spiegel, Yossi - 2007
We develop a theory of organization design in which the firm's structure is chosen to mitigate moral hazard problems in the selection and the implementation of projects. For a given set of projects, the 'divisional structure' which gives each agent the full responsibility over a subset of...
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The science of organizational design: Fit between structure and coordination
Burton, Richard M.; Obel, Børge - In: Journal of Organization Design 7 (2018) 5, pp. 1-13
Organization design is a major factor determining an organization's performance and how the people work together in these organizations. In the paper, we argue that designing organizations should be scientific-based and forward-looking. This raises challenges in designing organizations in...
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Organisationsstrukturen als Determinanten des Entscheidungsprozesses in mittelständischen Unternehmen
Martin, Albert; Behrends, Thomas - 1998
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The power of participation? Power relations and processes in employee-owned companies
Steger, Thomas; Hartz, Ronald - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 152-170
Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes … ownership interrelates with power relations and processes in the company. Moreover, some overarching patterns were derived from … the analysis finally resulting in seven propositions about how employee ownership and power are linked to each other. …
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Positional Power in Hierarchies
van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2007
Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in … hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to … the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority …
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Measuring Power And Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: Dictator and Opinion Leader Properties
van den Brink, René; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - 2009
one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise this power by … satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …
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