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Power inside the firm and the market : a general equilibrium approach

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2002 - First Version: December 2001, This Version: July 2002

Recent years have witnessed an enormous amount of reorganization of the corporate sector in the US and in Europe. This paper examines the role of market competition for this trend in corporate reorganization. We find that at intermediate levels of competition the CEO of the corporation decides...

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Globalization and the "new enterprise"

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2002

Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of human capital as the new stakeholder of the firm. This paper surveys recent work which examines the role of trade integration for these changes in corporate organization. More...

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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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Incentives, Scale Economies, and Organizational Form

Maskin, Eric; Qian, Yingyi; Xu, Chenggang - 2010

We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that affect the plants that he oversees directly or indirectly. Organizational form...

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Organizational Design, Project Selection and Incentives

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

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...

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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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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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Interactions across multiple games : cooperation, corruption, and organizational design

Bendor, Jonathan; Bolte, Lukas; Immorlica, Nicole; … - 2022

Teams face a variety of strategic circumstances, and it is socially beneficial for teams to cooperate in productive but not in corrupt ones. Understanding the behavior and social impact of teams requires understanding how cooperation in one situation depends on expectations of cooperation in...

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Information Uncertainty and Organizational Design

Ferracuti, Elia - 2022

This paper investigates how information uncertainty, measured through variation in the informativeness of the public information environment, shapes the organizational design choices of firms. I posit that, when faced with higher uncertainty about demand and supply, managers are more likely to...

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Conglomerates revisited

Williams, Jeffrey R.; Paez, Betty Lynn; Sanders, Leonard - In: Strategic management journal 9 (1988) 5, pp. 403-414

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