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.

MASSIMO G. COLOMBO is Professor of Economics of Technical Change at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. MARCO DELMASTRO is an economist at the Telecommunications and Media Division of Autorita garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (Italian Antitrust Authority), Italy.

Introduction: Why Organization Matters * Theoretical Foundations of Organizational Design and Dynamics * A New Empirical Methodology for the Analysis of Organizational Design and Dynamics * Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Design * Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Dynamics * Organizational Design and Firm Performances * Summing Up Introduction: Why Organization Matters * Theoretical Foundations of Organizational Design and Dynamics * A New Empirical Methodology for the Analysis of Organizational Design and Dynamics * Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Design * Evidence on the Determinants of Organizational Dynamics * Organizational Design and Firm Performances * Summing Up