The Economics Of Organizational Design

Synthesizing the quantitative evidence on organizational design, this book brings the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization which covers a range of topics, such as the depth of the managerial hierarchy, the delegation of decision power, and the determinants of organizational innovation.

This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization which currently covers a range of topics, such as the depth of the managerial hierarchy, the delegation of decision power, 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.