The paper aims to test (some of) the predictions of economic theory on the organizational architecture by looking at the relation between the depth of the management hierarchy of plants and plant and industry-specific variables. I test this relation through the estimates of an ordered logit...

There is a striking difference between the large number of theoretical papers on firm organization and the lack of quantitative empirical evidence. If on the one side economists are increasingly concerned with organization of firms, on the other side organization still remains an ambiguous...