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Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations

Brink, René van den; Gilles, Robert P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

In this paper we consider the problem of the control of access to a firm's productive asset, embedding the relevant decisionmakers into a general structure of formal authority relations. Within such an authority structure, each decision maker acts as a principal to some decision makers, while...

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Explicit and latent authority in hierarchical organizations

Brink, René van den; Gilles, Robert Paul - 2003

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On the stability of hierarchies in games with externalities

Currarini, Sergio - 2003

not ensuring social stability, hierarchies are the most stable organizational forms for society. …

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Paserman, M. Daniele; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2011

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Quotient Spaces of Boundedly Rational Types

Cianciaruso, Davide; Germano, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

By identifying types whose low-order beliefs up to level ℓ<sub>i</sub> about the state of nature coincide, we obtain quotient type spaces that are typically smaller than the original ones, preserve basic topological properties, and allow standard equilibrium analysis even under bounded reasoning. Our...

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Hiérarchies urbaines comparées en Méditerranée : 1960-2000

Catin, Maurice; Schaffar, Alexandra - In: Géographie, économie, société 13 (2011) 3, pp. 301-319

The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302 … hierarchies are characterized by higher concentration of urban population within the largest cities. These results confirm an … inverse U-shaped curve for the relation between urban hierarchies? dynamics and the level of economic development. …

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Hierarchies of action: a concept for library and information science

Jones, Bonna - In: Journal of Documentation 67 (2011) 4, pp. 695-709

describe three hierarchies of action, which include the human processes of semantic and social innovation, as well as a system …

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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management...

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On the relationship between hierarchy and type morphisms

Friedenberg, Amanda; Meier, Martin - In: Economic Theory 46 (2011) 3, pp. 377-399

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Preventing Collusion through Discretion

Felli, Leonardo; Hortala-Vallve, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Large public bureaucracies are commonly regarded as less efficient than modern private corporations. This paper explores how the degree of discretionary power might account for this difference in efficiency. Indeed, increasing the discretionary power of the intermediate layers of an organization...

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