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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the...
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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model and grow through geographic expansion. Another option was to decentralize more tasks to sellers and/or buyers, for example,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
four most important causes of stalls were found to be "the presumption of an unassailable competitive position" by management; "innovation management breakdown," including such factors as slow product development, too much View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
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...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
spent enormous sums, but without getting significant commercial returns. " Today, in-house funding at large corporations still makes up more than half of private-sector R&D expenditures. But in reaction to the decline in results, many companies have either...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We end by running instrumental variable estimates using...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure, for example, a shift from View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145499 Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions? Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani, and Saurabh Mishra Publication:In The Poor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
employers, Baxter and Abbott. For example, Termeer structured Genzyme, like Baxter, as a highly decentralized organization with many mini-general management positions; in fact, for several years, some Genzyme divisions were so autonomous,...
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by Mallory Stark
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
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....
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne