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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

Understanding Organizational Behavior with Wearable Sensing Technology

Waber, Benjamin N. - 2015

We describe how recent advances in wearable sensing technology allow for unprecedented accuracy in studies of human behavior, particularly organizational behavior. We use one such platform, the Sociometric badge, to understand organizational behavior in two studies. In the first, we describe the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707519

Firm Organization and Market Structure : Centralization vs. Decentralization

Meagher, Kieron - 2009

The profitability of a firm is jointly determined by it's organizational structure and the market structure. To explore the effects of market factors on optimal organizational structure we develop a real-time information processing model of a multi unit firm in a dynamic duopoly environment. Our...

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Organizational Design and Career Concerns

Hirata, Daisuke - 2017

This paper studies organizational design as the allocation of decision rights, primarily focusing on its interplay with agents' career motives. I identify a new tradeoff between delegation and centralization, which arises solely from career concerns: When delegated, an agent takes inefficient...

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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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Evaluation problem versus selection problem in organizational structures

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - 2005

We consider a hierarchical organization with two fully rational agents. The goal of the organization is that of selecting the best alternative out of several available, and agents are heterogenous in the accuracy with which they screen the alternatives. We show that, if internal communications...

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Managing social comparison costs in organizations

Contreras, Óscar F.; Zanarone, Giorgio - 2018

This paper studies how organizations manage the social comparisons that arise when their employees' pay and tasks, and hence their status vis-à-vis peers, differ. We show that under a "pay transparency policy", the organization may compress pay and distort the employees' tasks to minimize...

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Evaluation Problem Versus Selection Problem in Organizational Structures

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - 2005

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Bounded Rationality and the Search for Organizational Architecture : An Evolutionary Perspective on the Design of Organizations and Their Evolvability

Ethiraj, Sendil K.; Levinthal, Daniel - 2011

. This question is intimately related to broader issues of concern to organization theory including the usefulness and value … complexity with mainstream organization theory, we address three research questions: (1) how does the architecture or structure … complementarity. We discuss the implications of our findings for organization theory and design and also the burgeoning literature on …

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