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- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation—namely, urban/rural dualism, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s local circumstances. Our research site switched from its traditional decentralized hiring model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (in this study, by the store managers), leads to lower employee turnover. On one hand, a centralized model of hiring can allow a company to ensure enough resources and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
launched major changes in its R&D organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
decentralized nature. The content industry must find ways to embrace the new technology and profit from it. Q: What are the practical "takeaways" for managers in related areas? A: At a broad level, in designing new business... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test. Should the knowledge management tools be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores the views of Christoph Westphal on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
conducted business in 120 countries—had shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace