Search Results - subject:"Hierarchical structure"

Corporate Hierarchies and the Size of Nations : Theory and Evidence

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2007

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 more decentral...

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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2007

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others. time. This mechanism increases productivity and amplifies the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this effect, we analyze the earnings and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium...

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Positional Power in Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. 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...

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High in the hierarchy : how vertical location and judgments of leaders' power are interrelated

Giessner, Steffen R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Contributions in empirical labour economics

Pfeifer, Christian (contributor) - 2007

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How much control is enough? : monitoring and enforcement under Stalin

Markevič, Andrej M. (contributor) - 2007

fuzziness of the hierarchical structure increased over time. One can study changes in the status of different subunits of the …

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Optimal hierarchies with diverse decision-makers

Puschke, Kerstin (contributor) - 2007

develop a simple model of the hierarchical structure of an organization. We consider a principal who hires two agents in order … independent of the hierarchical structure.5 In a vertical hierarchy, a multi-task problem6 might occur. A decision- maker … that this is not an issue. We also do not have any cost savings due to synergies. The impact of the hierarchical structure …

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A game theoretical approach to the algebraic counterpart of the Wagner hierarchy

Cabessa, Jérémie (contributor) - 2007

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003482642