This work offers an overview of recent formalizations of organizational capabilities and learning. We first present the main characteristics both of NK models and of the approach based on Classifier Systems, focusing on their early applications to organization studies. We then discuss how the...

What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...

Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a fundamental driver of the business model of the bank...

In this paper we consider the problem of allocating scarce resources in a divisionalized company; the resources are made available by the headquarters and requested by profit centers (PCs). This problem was observed at a large german insurance company (LAGIC). Currently, the resources are...

Die Grundaufgabe der finanziellen Führung ist Sicherung der Liquidität. Finanzorganisation ist das Positions- und Kompetenzgefüge sowie das Interaktions- und Kommunikationsgefüge der finanziellen Unternehmensführung. Der vorliegende Beitrag fragt, wie sich die Finanzorganisation deutscher...

Using a sample of 95 German firms, the study finds general support for the traditional fits of international strategy-structure theory. Employing an information-processing perspective, the study conceptually and empirically extends existing theory (1) to address strategy-structure fit for...

Introduction -- What is organization design? -- The relationship between organization development, change management and organization design, and what this means in practice -- Practitioner attributes, skills and roles -- Starting -- Designing -- Planning to transition -- Transitioning --...

Performance management: an introduction -- What is performance management? -- The rise of performance management -- Theory and performance management -- Organizational goals and objectives -- Introduction to organizational strategy -- Competitive strategy -- Organizational structure --...

About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Why design matters -- Organisational complexity -- Traditional organizational forms -- Designing multidimensional organisations -- Designing sub-units -- Defining the vertical structure -- Configuring interfaces -- Managing the organisation design process...

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

Gegenstand dieses Arbeitspapiers ist die Ausgestaltung der Problemkre-ditbearbeitung von Genossenschaftsbanken. Auf Basis einer repräsentativen Stichprobe von 212 Genossenschaftsbanken, konnten erstmalig repräsentative Ergebnisse zu den zahlreichen Facetten der Problemkreditbearbeitung für...