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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Organizational Economics"”.
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Essays in organizational economics
… countries. The second chapter explores organizational responses to influence activities-costly activities aimed at persuading a decision maker. Rigid organizational practices that might otherwise seem inefficient can optimally arise. If more complex decisions are more susceptible to …
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Essays in organizational economics
This thesis is a collection of essays on organizational economics and finance-related topics. Firms and individuals who sell opinions may bias their reports for either behavioral or strategic reasons. Chapter 1 proposes a new methodology for measuring these biases, particularly whether opinion …
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Essays in organizational economics
… theoretical essays that examine the role of organizational architecture in facilitating organizational adaptation to a changing environment. Chapter 1 develops a model of coordinated adaptation where .an organization needs to respond to incoming information about its environment while at the …
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Essays on behavioural and organizational economics
This thesis consists of three self-contained experimental studies focusing on conformity behavior in the leader appointment process, self-group risk preferences of elected leaders and performance feedback mechanisms. In Chapter 1, I investigate discrimination against women in election settings and …
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Essays in Organizational Economics and Strategy
In these essays, I explore how organizational structure interacts with other features of an organization to influence strategy. In the first paper, I consider how an organization’s cognitive diversity interacts with organizational structure to influence the degree to which the organization chooses …
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Essays on contract theory and organizational economics
Chapter 1 develops a non-parametric methodology for identifying contract optimality in the presence of moral hazard. Following the first order approach, a standard method of computing optimal contracts, the paper first proves two theoretical properties of the solutions to the moral hazard problem. …
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Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance
The first chapter presents a model in which a principal requires an agent to work on multiple tasks, which require varying levels of effort. Initially the appropriate actions are unknown to the principal and so he cannot monitor the agent's effort; however he may succeed in learning the game over …
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The Determinants of Organizational Form in the Biotechnology Industry: An Integrative Organizational Economics Framework
… to have complementary effects on the choice of organizational form, particularly in the magnitude of equity investment, rather than substituting for each other. Furthermore, the nature of equity investment in the pharmaceutical-biotechnology alliances in this sample suggests that investments are …
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Crafting the enterprise : an analysis of the implementation and evolution of an extended enterprise for new project development, from the perspectives of organizational economics and architectural partitioning
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001.
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Information Technology and Governance: Substitution and Complementary Effects
… this dissertation extends studies in organizational economics and strategic management.
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Essays on the economic and financial challenges facing South Africa's commodity sector
… and development. The second article takes an organizational economics approach, examining how firms have responded to endogenous and exogenous supply and demand shocks by shifting their strategies to both protect their core business activities while also meeting the expectations of …
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Work distribution in global product development organizations
… operations management, product development, and organizational economics, we identify coordination effort required between locations as a key contributing factor towards the performance of global product development organizations. We segregate the time required to complete a product development …
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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions
One recent development in the organizational economics approach to strategy management concerns the integration of the organizational capabilities view and the transaction costs theory. My dissertation takes on this task focusing on transaction costs economics, dynamic capabilities, and temporal …
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Three essays on the organizational dimensions of the strategic management of patents
… is rooted in market for technologies theory and organizational economics to answer to a call for additional research on the processes and organizational mechanisms through which firms implement their patent strategies. The first chapter investigates the organizational configurations that lead to …