The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corpora- tion can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The...

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the...

The paper investigates different implications of theoretical models for hierarchical structure. A sample of 6578 firms in the Brazilian manufacturing industry is considered and explanatory factors pertaining structural characteristics, network technology, technological innovations, managerial...

There are estimates that up to 30% of hospital costs are due to inefficiently coordinated hospital processes. As a result many hospitals have tried to model and to reengineer their business processes. These efforts have very often been abandoned, because the normally constructed total models of...

Die Grundaufgabe der finanziellen Führung ist Sicherung der Liquidität. Finanzorganisation ist das Positions- und Kompetenzgefüge sowie das Interaktions- und Kommunikationsgefüge der finanziellen Unternehmensführung. Der vorliegende Beitrag fragt, wie sich die Finanzorganisation deutscher...

Für das Untersuchungsfeld 2 stellte sich die Aufgabe, die Umsetzung des gesetzlichen Auftrags bei den kommunalen Trägern und bei den ARGEn zu untersuchen.