Essays in organizational economics

New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation analyzes some of these interactions, evaluating their performance and their effects o...

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Autor: Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/296799
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/296799
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Organizational economics
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Sumario:New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation analyzes some of these interactions, evaluating their performance and their effects on worker’s behavior. The first chapter studies the allocation of decision-making rights on the firm when managers are able to choose her team composition in uncertain environments. The second chapter shows how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers at the workplace and how social and monetary incentives affect the size and sign of spillovers. The third chapter studies the use of multiple performance measures on the design of incentive systems. There I study how the existence of performance threshold, the ratio of output/input prices and the workers risk aversion play an important role on the determination of the strength and the spread of the incentives.