The Economics of Organizational Design: Theory and Empirical Insights

This volume closes the gap between a growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization that addresses topics as the depth of the managerial hierarchy, the delegation of decision power, and the determinants of organizational innovation, and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management, business history and organizational sociology. It also relies on the results of large-scale quantitative studies on the organization of firms to substantially extend our understanding of these important issues.