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Competition and investment — A unified approach

Schmutzler, Armin - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 5, pp. 477-487

competition leads to more cost-reducing investments. The framework can, for instance, capture increasing substitutability for … different types of oligopoly models or changes from Cournot to Bertrand competition. The paper identifies four transmission … mechanisms by which competition affects investment. For a firm with lower initial marginal costs (higher efficiency), a positive …

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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...

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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947

Incomplete contract and divisional structures

Te, Bao; Wang, Yongqin - 2009

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as sequence of search.A key feature of this paper which...

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Positional wages, market wages and firm size

Brink, René van den; Ruys, Pieter H. M. - 2005

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the...

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Authority and incentives in organizations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2013

The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...

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The organization of European multinationals

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - 2011

Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...

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Authority and incentives in organizations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2013

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Rent seeking and organizational structure

Wärneryd, Karl - 2014

A hierarchically structured rent-seeking contest may be associated with lower equilibrium expenditure than a corresponding flat contest. In this chapter we discuss how this fact may be used to explain the structure of organizations such as firms, including why firms commonly have outside owners.

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Organizing for competitiveness : structural and process characteristics of organizational design

Hernaus, Tomislav; Aleksic, Ana; Klindzic, Maja - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 4, pp. 25-40

An emerging multidimensional approach to organizational design outlines the need for the alignment of relevant structural and process characteristics of organizations. However, neither the interaction of these characteristics nor their role and importance for organizational competitiveness is...

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