Since several decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) as well as new organizational designs change the working life in firms. Using nationally representative Swiss firm-level panel data, the present paper analyzes the relationship between these developments and examines,...

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The...

Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten verändern sowohl Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (ICT) wie auch neue Organisationsgestaltungen das Arbeitsleben in Unternehmen. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Projekts war es, den Zusammenhang von technologischen Innovationen und organisatorischer Architektur...

There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This...