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Committees, hierarchies and polyarchies
Sah, Raaj Kumar - 2012
the optimal sizes of these organizations (as well as the optimal level of consensus in committees), and then analyze how …
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Delegation of Specification : An Agency Theory of Organizations
Mitnick, Barry M. - 2012
contracts in exchange relationships. Yet organizations are horizontal exchange systems only in metaphor; we also need to … organization literatures now treated as disjunct. Organizations are created -- exist -- as efficient means of directing (and … correcting) the behavior of agents. Organizations exist to tell people what to do …
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Values and Governance Systems
Ruys, Pieter H. M.; van den Brink, René; Semenov, Radislav - 2000
Cooperative behavior as well as other cultural rules and values are made explicit in organizational units that procure and provide a common service. The common service is procured by a club, which consists of a user-value function, a representation governance, and a budgetallocation function....
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Endogenous Spillovers, Increased Competition and Re-Organization Waves
Rodriguez-Palenzuela, Diego - 2012
We consider an entrepreneur that is the sole producer of a cost reducing skill, but the entrepreneur that hires a team to use the skill cannot prevent collusive trade for the innovation-related knowledge between employees and competitors. We show that there are two types of diffusion-avoiding...
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Vertikale Integration und informations- und kommunikationsintensive Dienstleistungen
Gick, Wolfgang - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
technologies (ICTs) inside organizations providing ICT-related services. Starting with the organizational literature it shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786072
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Distributed Knowledge and Economic Organization
Veetil, Vipin P. - 2015
This paper develops an explanation for why some activities are organized through firms and others through markets. It studies the problem of coordination in an idealized firm and an idealized market. Both the firm and the market face the problem of using knowledge that is widely dispersed among...
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On the Path Towards a Competence-Based Theory of the Firm
Freiling, Jörg; Gersch, Martin; Goeke, Christian - 2011
Exploiting the potentials and tackling the problems of resource-based and competence-based research, this paper develops a proposal for a competence-based theory of the firm (CbTF). The CbTF is based on the fundamentals of market process theory and is independent from existing approaches to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048050
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A Contingency Theory of Representational Complexity in Organizations
Csaszar, Felipe A. - 2019
A long-standing question in the organizations literature is whether firms are better-off by using simple or complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860526
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Organizations as Artificial Intelligences : The Use of Artificial Intelligence Analogies in Organization Theory
Csaszar, Felipe A.; Steinberger, Tom - 2021
fundamental processes in organizations: search, representation, and aggregation. We argue that this broad and deep borrowing from … (programs and organizations) can pursue intelligent behavior. We also identify areas of AI from which OT scholars may continue … to draw inspiration and suggest ways in which AI technologies may continue to affect organizations. Overall, our work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231456
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The corporate headquarters in organization design theory : an organizational economics perspective
Foss, Nicolai J. - In: Journal of organization design : JOD 8 (2019) 1/8, pp. 1-9
The corporate headquarters (CHQ) is an important part of the organization of large firms; yet, it is neglected in organization design theory. In this brief essay, I argue that we need a better understanding of the CHQ to further our understanding of the link between the top-management team and...
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