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Hierarchical Structure and Search in Complex Organizations

Mihm, Jürgen; Loch, Christoph H.; Wilkinson, Dennis; … - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 5, pp. 831-848

strategy, the acquisition of new capabilities, or new product development. Previous work on search and organizational hierarchy … explore the effect of an organizational hierarchy on solution stability, solution quality, and search speed. Three insights … arise on how a hierarchy can improve organizational search: (1) assigning a lead function that "anchors" a solution speeds …

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Competition in a new industrial economy : toward an agent-based economic model of modularity

Chie, Bin-Tzong; Chen, Shu-Heng - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 4 (2014) 3, pp. 192-218

When firms (conglomerates) are competing, not only for the present, with a given population of customers and a fixed set of commodities or service, but also for the future, in which products are constantly evolving, what will be their competitive strategies and what will be the emerging ecology...

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Bridging complexity theory and hierarchies, markets, networks, communities : a "population genetics" framework for understanding institutional change from within

Tenbensel, Tim - In: Public management review 20 (2018) 7, pp. 1032-1051

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Hierarchical inconsistencies : a critical assessment of justification

Kasputis, Juozas - In: Economic thought 8 (2019) 2, pp. 1-12

hierarchy within contemporary organisations. It criticises so-called "natural" and "rational" necessities justifying hierarchy … than aiding understanding of social complexity. All in all, Homo Hierarchicus appears to be misleading rather than helping …

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Chapter 26 Agent-Based Models of Organizations

Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1273-1337). 2006

structure? (4) How do the characteristics of the environment—including its stability, complexity, and competitiveness …

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Competition in a new industrial economy: Toward an agent-based economic model of modularity

Chie, Bin-Tzong; Chen, Shu-Heng - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 192-218

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THE POWER OF NON-CONTRACTUAL INNOVATION

OLLEROS, F. XAVIER - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 11 (2007) 01, pp. 93-113

Currently, all major IT and telecom firms are busy trying to stimulate non-contractual complementary developments around their own core competences and offerings. But little has been done to explain the logic, strengths, and weaknesses of non-contractual innovation. The literature on...

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Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux

Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Galoppini, Roberto - EconWPA - 2003

: hierarchy is justified for coordination of continuous change, rather than for the direction of static production. Hierarchy is …

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Competition in a New Industrial Economy: Toward an Agent-Based Economic Model of Modularity

Chie, Bin-Tzong; Chen, Shu-Heng - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 192-218

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Energy and Institution Size

Fix, Blair - In: PLoS ONE 12 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22

Why do institutions grow? Despite nearly a century of scientific effort, there remains little consensus on this topic. This paper offers a new approach that focuses on energy consumption. A systematic relation exists between institution size and energy consumption per capita: as energy...

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