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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"decision rights"”.
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Information technology and business transformation : work location and the allocation of decision rights
… headquarters have an incentive to delegate decision rights to the local branch. I develop a mathematical model to analyze this tradeoff and derive testable hypotheses that relate IT investment diversity and the allocation of decision rights. Decentralization leads to less uniform IT …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… in which institutional design in general, and decision rights allocations in particular, affect performance. The second has to do with the design of boards of governance in semi-autonomous, corporatized public agencies and how that affects incentives for performance. The third question has to …
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Risk Allocation, Decision Rights, and Adaptive Lifecycle Project Management Practices in Public-Private Partnership Highway Contracts in Australia, the Philippines, and India
… of three key areas in PPPs: risk allocation, decision rights allocation, and lifecycle project management. Together, these studies shed light on how contracting parties design contracts ex ante to address ex post uncertainty due to inevitable changes in circumstances and requirements. In the …
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Divestiture governance modes and innovation outcomes
… governance modes is that the parent company’s decision rights and bureaucratic constraints differentially affect each mode. The first study finds that while divestitures can potentially align market information and unit-managers’ agency incentives to unit-level outcomes for both governance …
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A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy
… the relative distribution of digital information decision rights across groups within a society, demonstrating the utility for future-oriented research that allows for active theorization that can adapt to rates of technological progress and resulting socio-technical changes. </p>
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Renegotiation and the choice of covenants in debt contracts
… which allows for a more efficient allocation of decision rights between the borrower and lenders. Overall, this study provides initial evidence about how renegotiation considerations affect the design of covenant packages in debt contracts.
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Essays in organizational economics
… activities. It analyzes how the allocation of decision rights inside the organization impacts the quality of decision-making and the accuracy of information transmission when information is both soft and distributed inside the organization. The results show that, contrary to the common …
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Dynamics of Group Decision-Making
… Theory, specifically the dynamics of decision-making. The first explores how the desire for conformity results in long-run misperceptions due to uninformative decision-making. The second chapter studies multi-project collaborative experimentation. The final chapter analyzes whether …
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Essays In Finance And Macroeconomics
… firm behavior by state-contingently allocating decision rights to creditors. I develop a model with long-term debt where shareholders cannot commit to not dilute creditors in the future with new debt issuances and risky investments. Creditors intervene upon violations of covenant restrictions …
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Knowledge Transfer Costs and Political Visibility as Determinants of Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
… costs. Knowledge transfer costs are higher when decisions must be made on the basis of idiosyncratic knowledge scientific knowledge or assembled knowledge. Control costs are higher when there is a greater need for top management to coordinate the decisions of managers lower in the organisation. …
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Improving Public-Private Partnership Contracts through Risk Characterization, Contract Mechanisms, and Flexibility
… monitoring and retains a majority of the decision rights to preclude opportunistic actions by the private sector; further, risk sharing mechanisms were complex and largely dependent on resolution during project implementation, which likely increases ex post transaction costs. Finally, …
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Three essays on the influence of information technology on the organization of firms
… communication and on the allocation of decision rights.
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Towards a model of strategic management incorporating fuzzy logic
… the most powerful drivers of effectiveness - decision rights and information flow.The research was conducted in three interrelated phases. First, the nature of strategic management and different views of strategic management were identified by means of a literature review. Each view of …