Search Results - subject:"Hierarchical structure"

Corporate hierarchies and the size of nations : theory and evidence

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2008

Corporate organization varies within a country and across countries with country size. The paper starts by establishing some facts about corporate organization based on unique data of 660 Austrian and German corporations. The larger country (Germany) has larger firms with flatter and more...

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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008

Several empirical studies have challenged tournament theory by pointing out that (1) there is considerable pay variation within hierarchy levels, (2) promotion premiums only in part explain hierarchical wage differences and (3) external recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We...

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On the (sub) optimality of multi-tier hierarchies : coordination versus motivation

Choe, Chongwoo; Ishiguro, Shingo - 2008

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Risk taking and gender in hierarchies

Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2008

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias (contributor); … - 2008

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Relative performance pay, bonuses and job-promotion tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias (contributor); … - 2008

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Experimentation under hierarchy : policy experiments in the reorganization of China's state sector, 1978 - 2008

Heilmann, Sebastian (contributor) - 2008

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The hierarchical structure of the firm : a geometric perspective

Tang, Kam Ki (contributor); Yanes, Leopoldo (contributor) - 2008

The Hierarchical Structure of the Firm: A Geometric Perspective Kam Ki Tang and Leopoldo Yanes School of Economics …: PDF- Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer Abstract This paper incorporates hierarchical structure into … and output prices on the firm’s hierarchical structure. We find that the firm grows as the specialization of its workers …

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

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