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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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Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...
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profile is first surveyed and compared. Then, with the help of Contingency Theory of Organizational Sociology, the study …
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-makers and managers. The analysis draws upon theory and practice in leadership, innovation and institution-building. The mutually … the focus in on healthcare, the book has wider relevance for students of management, leadership, innovation and … Clinical Leadership presents the latest state of knowledge based on original data from a series of NIHR-funded research …
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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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We develop a theory of organization design in which the firm's structure is chosen to mitigate moral hazard problems in …
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, trust, and incentives-the basis for the multi-contingency theory of organizational design.An organizational design must … scientific-based theory of organizational design. …
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This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. We distinguish between two classes of models according to the different objects of analysis. The first class includes models mainly...
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