"The authors synthesize the existing interdisciplinary quantitative evidence on organizational design and provide a new empirical framework to extend our understanding of the determinants of organizational design, its evolution and a firm's performance."--Jacket

This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management, business history and organizational...

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...