Search Results - subject:"Span of Control"

Managerial spans, industry tasks and ICT: evidence from the U.S.

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The knowledge theoretic view of organization of production postulates that ICT, tasks and hierarchies intertwine. Utilizing Occupational Employment Statistics and O*NET data, this study investigates the proposition by exploiting the substantial cross-industry variation in hierarchical forms,...

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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production, but specialization requires communication and...

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Size does matter – span of control in hospitals

Holm-Petersen, Christina; Østergaard, Sussanne; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 31 (2017) 2, pp. 192-206

Purpose Centralization, mergers and cost reductions have generally led to increasing levels of span of control (SOC …

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Size does matter : span of control in hospitals

Holm-Petersen, Christina; Østergaard, Sussanne; … - In: Journal of health organization and management 31 (2017) 2, pp. 192-206

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Taxing Atlas: Executive compensation, firm size, and their impact on optimal top income tax rates

Ales, Laurence; Bellofatto, Antonio Andrés; Wang, … - In: Review of economic dynamics 26 (2017), pp. 62-90

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A Quantitative Approach to the Organizational Design Problem

Mena, Jesus A - 2011

The span of control is the most discussed single concept in classical and modern management theory. In specifying … conditions for organizational effectiveness, the span of control has generally been regarded as a critical factor. Existing …

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Managing span of control efficiency and effectiveness: a case study

El-Khalil, Raed; El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 23 (2016) 7, pp. 1717-1735

hour (JPH) lost, and injury rate); second, the optimal level of span of control based on the best achieved outputs; and … third, whether increasing the span of control post 2009 improved manufacturing outputs in comparison with a span of control … pre 2009. Design/methodology/approach The optimal level of span of control at the automotive Big Three (Chrysler LLC, Ford …

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Span and scale of the government : analysis of the public personnel reform in environmental regulation sectors

Shen, Hua; Zhong, Shaoying; Chen, Rui - In: Public personnel management 45 (2016) 1, pp. 58-69

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The opportunity costs of entrepreneurs in international trade

Kehoe, Timothy Jerome; Pujolàs, Pau S.; Ruhl, Kim J. - In: Economics letters 146 (2016), pp. 1-3

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How companies adjust their span of control to national institutions : evidence from matched-pair engineering companies

Teuber, Silvia; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Ryan, Paul - In: Die Betriebswirtschaft : DBW 76 (2016) 4, pp. 255-273

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