Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita …

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 …

This paper reports the findings of a formative study that examined knowledge, readiness, and perceptions of healthcare …

knowledge building as well as for practice-oriented approaches: the art and craft of handling strategic actors and power …

different cognitive representations. Following a brief discussion on the role of hierarchy and the related problem of … simulations highlight differences in the ability to learn in different organizational set-ups with diverse patterns of knowledge …

knowledge: they do not require mutual understanding between the sender and the receiver as other forms of communication do. In … particular, the knowledge of both the team payoff function and the team organisation can be ordered according to hierarchical … derives the requirements in terms of knowledge of the members that follow from given structures of task assignment …

discussion of the role of hierarchy and the related problems of organizational practice selection in the evolutionary literature … organizational set-ups and their related knowledge distribution. It is shown that networking designs are the most profitable …