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Strategic behavior and organizational structure in religions

Wittman, Donald A. - 2012

the context of the small (religious institutions). --religious organizations ; autocracy ; age ; organizational structure …Religions are organized in a variety of ways. They may resemble an elected autocracy, a parliamentary democracy, or … institutionalized and when the age of a person may be an important strategic factor in choosing a leader. I am thus able to explain what …

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Understanding an Emergent Diversity of Corporate Governance and Organizational Architecture : Essentiality-Based Analysis

Aoki, Masahiko; Jackson, Gregory - 2009

This article proposes a simple framework for understanding an emergent diversity of linkage between corporate governance (CG) and organizational architecture (OA). It distinguishes discreet modes of their linkage by different combinatorial patterns between three basic assets: managers' human...

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Business Associations and Private Ordering

Prufer, Jens - 2012

I study the capacity of business associations - private, formal, noncommercial organizations designed to promote the common business interests of their members - to support contract enforcement and collective action. Inspired by recent empirical literature, my theoretical framework connects the...

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Business Associations and Private Ordering

Prufer, Jens - 2014

We study the capacity of business associations|private, formal, noncommercial organizations designed to promote the common business interests of their members|to support contract enforcement and collective action. Inspired by recent empirical literature, our theoretical framework connects the...

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Queuing, task complexity and organizational structure

Lederer, Phillip J.; Zheng, Xiaobo - 2014 - This version: January 9, 2014

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Task assignment and organizational form

Puschke, Kerstin (contributor) - 2006

This paper shows that a firm prefers a process-based task assignment compared to a function based one if the tasks are from functional areas which are neither too complementary nor too substitutable. We consider several projects with contributions from several functional areas. The organization...

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Organizations and Coordination in a Diverse Population

Dai, Liang - 2020

We study how organizations can exist to facilitate coordination in a diverse population by mitigating strategic uncertainty. Members of an organization are obliged to take collective actions, which mitigates strategic uncertainty. But some actions may be detrimental to some members, thus...

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Trustless Architecture and the V-Form Organisation

Berg, Chris - 2020

Blockchain (distributed ledger technology) is an institutional technology that allows trust to be manufactured instead of being earned. Trust is an important component of business and trade and has previously been subsumed into information costs. It is only now that the importance of trust is...

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Chapter 26 Agent-Based Models of Organizations

Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1273-1337). 2006

The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...

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Chapter 16. Technological Innovation and the Theory of the Firm : The Role of Enterprise-Level Knowledge, Complementarities, and (Dynamic) Capabilities

Teece, David J. - 2010

The firm is the central actor for the effectuation of innovation and technological change. The large industrial laboratories of the previous century have given way to more organizationally and geographically diffuse sources of technology, placing even greater emphasis on the coordination skills...

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