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Task-Specific Human Capital and Organizational Inertia

Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2014

) exploration, managerial vision, organizational task-specific investments, and incentive pay. Our analysis yields testable …

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Delegation of Specification : An Agency Theory of Organizations

Mitnick, Barry M. - 2012

To date, much of the literature on institutional economics has relied on abstract metaphors based in exchange. Thus, Williamson introduced the fundamental insights surrounding his “transaction costs” model and discussed the governance of contracts in exchange relationships. Yet organizations...

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IS-Driven Organizational Responsiveness

Konsynski, Benn - 2007

We develop and subsequently test a model detailing how knowledge technologies, embodied in intra-organizational information systems (IS), provide opportunities that influence individual-level human motivations to engage in knowledge exchange processes, thereby influencing organizational...

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Dynamic Contracting Under Imperfect Public Information and Asymmetric Beliefs

Giat, Yahel - 2013

We develop a dynamic principal-agent model to show how imperfect public information and asymmetric beliefs about payoff-relevant parameters, agency conflicts, and the agent's implicit incentives to influence the principal's posterior beliefs through his unobservable actions interact to affect...

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Dynamic Contracting Under Imperfect Public Information and Asymmetric Beliefs

Giat, Yahel - 2013

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An organizational theory of unionization

Prummer, Anja; Squintani, Francesco - 2024

Motivated by the recent surge in union drives, we present a theoretical model of the factors that influence unionization. An employee seeking to unionize their workplace assembles organizers to persuade coworkers to vote in favor. If unionization benefits workers, it is more likely to succeed...

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An organizational theory of unionization

Prummer, Anja; Squintani, Francesco - 2024

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A Contingency Theory of Representational Complexity in Organizations

Csaszar, Felipe A. - 2019

A long-standing question in the organizations literature is whether firms are better-off by using simple or complex representations of their task environment. We address this question by developing a formal model of how firm performance depends on the process by which firms learn and use...

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Organizations as Artificial Intelligences : The Use of Artificial Intelligence Analogies in Organization Theory

Csaszar, Felipe A.; Steinberger, Tom - 2021

intelligence (AI). For example, key OT concepts such as problemistic search, heuristics, exploration, requisite variety, and …

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Exploration Modes and its Impact on Industry Profitability : The Differentiated Effects of Internal and External Ways to Access Market Knowledge

Biggiero, Lucio - 2018

on their exploration activities, because they enlarge firms’ knowledge base. The analysis has been here focused on … accumulating and using the own direct experience. The effects of these two exploration modes on profitability at industry and … tiers perform quite differently. Moreover, the two exploration modes and opportunism impact very differently on each …

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