The first part of this paper introduces a framework for dealing with the information systematic aspect of an organizational form as a choice variable rather than as technological data. It identifies two generic forms of organizations when economic agents are bounded in their information...

This paper compares benefits and costs related to hierarchical and decentralized organizations in an agency framework. We show that the relative efficiency of hierarchy diminishes in contexts with asymmetric information. When effort is not observable, a performance-related pay is required in...

Research on organization design, its transformation, change management, organizational restructuring for the last two decades makes it a challenging and complex research area. The central problem is to design organizations for superior performance on the basis of mechanisms such as uncertainty,...

Acquirers who buy small technology based firms for their technological capabilities often discover that post merger integration can destroy the very innovative capabilities that made the acquired organization attractive in the first place. Viewing structural integration as a mechanism to achieve...

There is a striking difference between the large number of theoretical papers on firm organization and the lack of quantitative empirical evidence. If on the one side economists are increasingly concerned with organization of firms, on the other side organization still remains an ambiguous...

We study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal group design, we prime subjects to two alternative organizational cultures emphasizing either self-enhancement...

Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is...

The purposes of this research were investigated the important factors of leadership and organizational structure affecting job satisfaction, and examine the effect of job satisfaction on work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior in Thailand operations focusing on Y-generation...