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Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...
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Two recent failures of the United States intelligence system have led to thecreation of high-level investigative commissions. The failure to prevent theterrorist attacks of 9/11 prompted the creation of the 9/11 Commission, andthe mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had retained weapons of...
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The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...
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Strategische Frühaufklärung befasst sich mit der frühzeitigen Entdeckung strategischer Chancen und Gefahren sowie der Einleitung geeigneter Reaktionen. Ziel ist es, Handlungsspielräume zu schaffen und dadurch bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen. Trotz hohem potenziellen Nutzen ist der...
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The notion that an increase in information technology investments will result in a positive impact on productivity has … investment in IT and productivity while others suggested otherwise. Even though there is a growing number of an academic studies ….88%, whilst Africa has not contributed much to IT and productivity literature with just 8.51%. The study therefore concluded that …
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"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of...
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