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Knowledge-based hierarchies : using organizations to understand the economy
Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2014
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Knowledge-based hierarchies: using organizations to understand the economy
Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126487
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Diffusion and directed technological knowledge, human capital and wages
Afonso, Oscar - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 370-382
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Can firms oversee more workers with fewer managers?
Smeets, Valerie - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Managers are supervising more and more workers, and firms are getting flatter. However, not all firms have been keen on increasing the number of subordinates that their bosses manage (referred to as the “span of control” in human resource management), contending that there are limits to...
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The Knowledge Economy at the turn of the Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
The knowledge economy is nothing new. As Chandler’s (1977) classic study documents,improvements in communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860695
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Crossing wires : short-circuiting marketing theory
Coffin, Jack; Eichert, Christian A.; Bettany, Shona; … - In: Marketing theory 22 (2022) 2, pp. 275-292
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Can firms oversee more workers with fewer managers? : firms need to tailor their allocation of talent and responsibility, and their managerial structure, to fit their competitive s...
Smeets, Valerie - 2017
Managers are supervising more and more workers, and firms are getting flatter. However, not all firms have been keen on increasing the number of subordinates that their bosses manage (referred to as the “span of control” in human resource management), contending that there are limits to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593665
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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce …. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the …
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The wage policy of firms : comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data
Grund, Christian - 2002
hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414006
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The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration … policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to or mitigate labor market hierarchies between natives and immigrants … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …
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