We investigate how managers trade off the benefits of delegating authority to their employees with the risk of loss of control. Organizational economics theory identifies specific knowledge of subordinates and monitoring possibilities for the manager as determinants of delegation. Social...

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: A Resilient Past; 2. Individual Resilience; 3. Small Firms, Big Shocks; 4. Big Firms, Isolated Shocks; 5. Big Firms, Enterprise-wide Shocks; 6. Resilience in an Economic Ecosystem; Part II: A Resilient Future; 7. Synthesis: The Resilience Landscape; 8. Leadership...

Abstract Waste picking is an informal economy activity that has attracted a large amount of research across the social sciences. We contribute to the debate on informality and its institutional determinants through case study analysis. We present a unique partnership between waste pickers and...