The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company’s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...

Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...

Earnings inequality has increased substantially since the 1970s. Using evidence changes from con…dential Census data on U.S. law offices on lawyers'organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas (1978) and Rosen (1982), a scale of operations effect...

Failed mergers are often attributed to „corporate culture problems“ – this statement is now almost regarded as commonplace. However, because these difficulties can rarely be differentiated between, this reference is unsatisfactory and in the worst case could even be used as an excuse. This...