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Power and Information Leakage in Organizations

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper offers a model to study the trade-off between the efficiency enhancements of information exchanges and the risk of information leakage in organizations. Information exchanges can be efficient since, in the absence of legal enforcement, the voluntary disclosure of personal information...

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Matching Communities and Hierarchies within the Firm

Cohendet, Patrick; Creplet, Frédéric; Diani, Morad; … - In: Journal of Management and Governance 8 (2004) 1, pp. 27-48

the firm through the analysis of the dialectic interaction between hierarchies and Knowledge-Intensive Communities (KnICs …) within the firm. Focusing on the cognitive dimension of the firm, we analyze the matching between hierarchies and KnICs and …

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Speed and Quality of Collective Decision-Making, I: Imperfect Information Processing

Grüner, Hans Peter; Schulte, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

respect to decision quality: two strictly balanced hierarchies and the fastest hierarchy, which is the skip-level reporting …

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Balancedness of Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation

Van Zandt, Timothy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

balanced hierarchies. This model uses continuous approximations; we derive bounds on the errors due to these approximations. We … then give results that indicate that optimal hierarchies in the general model of are approximately balanced. In particular …

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Structure and Returns to Scale of Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation

Van Zandt, Timothy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

possibility of decentralizing decision-making within these hierarchical organizations allows for larger hierarchies. Organization … large enough hierarchies, the value of the root office ’s information processing is less than the office ’s administrative … costs. We also find that as the environment changes more rapidly, optimal hierarchies become smaller and more internally …

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Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Broadberry, Stephen N; Ghosal, Sayantan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

provided, focusing on the transition from networks to hierarchies. Four general lessons are drawn: (1) developments in services …

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Innovation and Urban Regions as National and International Nodes for the Transfer and Sharing of Knowledge

Simmie, James - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 6-7, pp. 607-620

S IMMIE J. (2003) Innovation and urban regions as national and international nodes for the transfer and sharing of knowledge, Reg. Studies 37 , 607-620. This paper examines the transfer and sharing of knowledge within and between regions in the context of the development of the international...

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Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs

Van Zandt, Timothy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a model in which boundedly rational members of an administrative staff calculate resource allocations in real time. We consider a class of hierarchical procedures in which information about payoff functions flows up and is aggregated by a hierarchy, while allocations flow...

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The Wage Policy of Firms – Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data

Grund, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar …

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Organization Design

Harris, Milton; Raviv, Artur - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 7, pp. 852-865

This paper attempts to explain organization structure based on optimal coordination of interactions among activities. The main idea is that each manager is capable of detecting and coordinating interactions only within his limited area of expertise. Only the CEO can coordinate company wide...

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