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Inderst, Roman; Müller, Holger M.; Wärneryd, Karl - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

In an internal capital market, individual departments may compete for a share of the firm´s budget by engaging in wasteful influence activities. We show that firms with more levels of hierarchy may experience lower influence costs than less hierarchical firms, even though the former provide...

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Queues and Hierarchies

Beggs, Alan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper examines the optimal structure of hierarchies when workers differ in the range of tasks they can perform. A …

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Punctuated equilibrium: Reconciling theory of revolutionary and incremental change

Wollin, Andrew - 1999

Using Simon's concept of nested hierarchies, this paper advances a new synthesis for understanding how and why the …

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Cooperative Games and Disjunctive Permission Structures

Gilles, R.P.; Owen, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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On the design of hierarchies: coordination versus specialization

Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

We develop a model of hierarchies based on the allocation of authority. A firm's owners have ultimate authority over a …

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On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization

Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1999

We develop a model of hierarchies based on the allocation of authority. A firm's owners have ultimate authority over a …

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Emotions in command : biology, bureaucracy, and cultural evolution

Salter, Frank K. - 2008 - 1. paperback print, with a new introduction by the author

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Systems, Components and Technological Discontinuities: The Case of the Semiconductor Industry

Funk, Jeffrey - In: Industry and Innovation 15 (2008) 4, pp. 411-433

This paper uses the semiconductor industry to describe a model of technological change that sheds light on the mechanism by which many technological discontinuities occur. The model combines two arguments: (1) incremental improvements in a system's components impact on the performance and design...

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OPPOSITION TO CONTRACT PRODUCTION: SELF-SELECTION, STATUS, AND STRANDED ASSETS

Skully, David W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1998

Production contract tournaments induce self-selection among producers. Self-selection for pork differs from broiler production resulting in a predictably different political response by incumbent producers to contract innovation. The higher capital and status of incumbent pork producers than...

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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE WITHIN HIERARCHIES: THE CASE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Funk, Jeffrey - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 1, pp. 1-16

products can be represented in terms of an interaction between customer choice and product design hierarchies. Technological … the hierarchies. Movements up the hierarchies lead to the emergence of new product classes (i.e., technological … discontinuity) whereas movements down the hierarchies may result in the emergence of a dominant design in a specific product class. …

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