Today's internet is shaped largely by privately operated platforms of various kinds. This paper asks how the various commercially operated communication, market, consumption and service platforms can be grasped as a distinct organizational form of enterprise. To this end, we make a basic...

We examine how firms adapt their organization when they go public. To conform with the requirements of public capital markets, we expect IPO firms to become more organized, making the firm more accountable and its human capital more easily replaceable. We find that IPO firms transform into a...

China's economic structures, business dynamics and individual management decisions are not determined by the country's formal institutional arrangements alone. China's society, its politics and business are rather governed by powerful informal mechanisms that complement and sometimes overrule...

In today's global economy, organizational effectiveness and innovation have become top priorities, putting pressure on all businesses worldwide. Therefore, this study aims to explore the impact of organizational culture on effectiveness through organizational innovation. We analyzed...

We examine how performance management practices that render employee accomplishments transparent in an organization depend on employees’ hierarchical level. We consider a principal-agent model of an organization where the principal contracts directly with a group of higher-level agent-workers...

Research in the “theory of the firm” tradition has often characterized firms as subeconomies in which economic exchange is shaped by a central authority. We propose an expanded view of firms as subsocieties in which authority is further responsible for establishing principles that shape...

We examine how firms adapt their organization when they go public. To conform with the requirements of public capital markets, we expect IPO firms to become more organized, making the firm more accountable and its human capital more easily replaceable. We find that IPO firms transform into a...

This survey provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research on information flows in corporations. It highlights key frictions preventing effective information flows and discusses how organizational structure and corporate governance can alleviate these frictions, focusing on three...

New competitive and environmental challenges have fostered renewed attention towards organizational design. This scenario calls for a significant return to organizational design studies that embrace a holistic approach, especially those focusing on the simultaneous interaction of multiple design...

In my dissertation, I examine intraorganizational social networks and their antecedents and consequences. The first paper, jointly authored with Michael Tushman, is a theoretical discussion of the role of social networks in inter-divisional coordination. Most large organizations fail to develop...

In the human resource-based view of an organisation, resource heterogeneity of the firm provides sustainable competitive advantage. The two core variables that define the resource heterogeneity are the content capital (human capital) and the contextual capital (organisational and managerial...

In a recent series of articles, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny have argued that countries whose legal systems are based on civil law (especially of French origin) have systematically weaker environments for business than those whose legal...

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm...

The purpose of this paper is to review current literature on knowledge management and highlight the importance of knowledge audit in bringing about a holistic knowledge solution to knowledge management. Based on the review of literature on knowledge management, this study points out the role of...

In recent years, many new approaches have emerged regarding the effective and efficient management of organizations. These approaches are included in the literature with different disciplines and different perspectives. The main purpose of all these studies is to ensure sustainability. Among...

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no-meetings” control group. We find the...

Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a model in which firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers. We test...

A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm's organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...

Relevance of the topic is related to the fact that the creation and development of internal audit function are connected to the creation and development of joint-stock companies caused by post-soviet privatization of property in Georgia. The evolution of the Joint Stock Company facilitated the...

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...

Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...

In this research, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are approached, from an aspect of representation, executive function and acts of administration in contemporary governments. A study is carried out on Blockchain technology in harmony with the current social participation circumstances,...

In this paper we study the determinants of business groups' ownership structure using unique panel data on Korean chaebols. In particular, we attempt to understand how pyramids form over time. We find that chaebols grow vertically (that is, pyramidally) as the family uses well-established group...

We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...

Those ancestral pre-nomad days and later barter how humans learnt and developed systematic art of carrying out and managing activities in an organized way and to what scale and complexity, more specifically business. It’s very interesting. Let’s muse. The chapter begins with a description of...

The uncertainties triggered by external environment require that there is no one best way of designing the structure of the organisation rather it is dependent on the circumstance and resilience capacity to withstand the threats. The purpose of this study therefore is to investigate the effects...

This paper uses a new data source to analyze the choice of organizational form of retail gasoline stations. In recent years, gasoline stations have tended to be less likely to be owned and operated by a lessee dealer and more likely to be owned and operated by the refiner. Critics have alleged...

There is an expanding necessity in current times for more robust expense management as well as a need for higher returns in companies. The use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to get a competitive advantage has gained immense attention within organizations in a rapidly globalizing...

This paper aims to analysis and evaluate of an organization’s budgetary control system and its links with performance management and decision making. So, it tries to evaluate the relation of budgetary control system with the actual performance and taking decisions accordingly. The researcher...

An organization can be likened to a building whose strength is determined by the structure and frames which holds it. The structure is the manner in which interrelated elements (resources) are arranged so that the building can be stable, resist stress and it provides the right form. To this end,...

"This book will provide knowledge and skills to allow readers with the ability to understand the evolution and trends of marketing, its implications in organizations and customer relationship while consolidating concepts introduced in recent years and looking at possible opportunities to broaden...

Introduction to communication-based management theory -- Perspectives of internal communication in the context of agile corporate management -- Task areas of corporate management and the contribution of internal communication: normative leadership, strategic controlling, organization, innovation...

Chapter 1 An Attempt to Introduction -- Chapter 2 Organisational Fields and Organisational Processes -- Chapter 3 Introduction to Organisation Structuralism -- Chapter 4 Fundamental properties of Organisational Structuralism: from homogeneity to autonomy -- Chapter 5 Methodological Foundations...

"In the corporate underground, creative intrapreneurs produce ideas autonomously and without the consent of management. Such informal activity frequently 'corrects' and compensates for the weaknesses of formal organisational systems. The corporate underground is an adjusting element for a number...