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Hierarchy: The Economics of Management
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This article is published in Journal of Economic Literature.The article was published on 1992-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hierarchy & Analytic hierarchy process.read more
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Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm,” Strategic Management Journal (17), pp.
TL;DR: The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design
Ron Sanchez,Joseph T. Mahoney +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the ability of strindicated interfcices between components in product design to embed coordination of product development processes and develop concepts of modularity in product and organization designs based on nearly decoffnposable systems.
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Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production
Luis Garicano,Luis Garicano +1 more
TL;DR: The paper shows that the model is consistent with stylized facts in the theory of organizations and uses it to analyze the impact of changes in production and information technology on organizational design.
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Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production
TL;DR: In this paper, a knowledge-based hierarchy is used to organize the acquisition of knowledge when matching problems with those who know how to solve them is costly, which is consistent with stylized facts in the theory of organizations and uses it to analyze the impact of changes in production and information technology on organizational design.
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Economics and business economics
TL;DR: The comparison between economics and business management allows the clarification of some of their characteristics and limits as regards method, language, and objectives as discussed by the authors and allows the verification of the reciprocal contribution relating to research.