The volatility and fierce competition of the business environment in the 21st century has forced enterprises to constantly review and change their structure, hierarchy, command, control and management styles. The pentatomic organization enterprise architecture offers a non-conventional approach...

This paper empirically investigates how the level of authority delegation is related to the performance of an organization. Decentralized, horizontal organizational structure takes advantage of more efficient decision making, mainly due to more efficient use of "soft" information. The cost of...

Focus - specialization and specific technology - improves productivity but leads to more dependency and opens a door for power problems. We analyze how organizational design and the choice of technology interact with the allocation of ownership in minimizing the holdup problem. We find a novel...