TY - JOUR
T1 - Delegation of decisions about change in organizations
T2 - The roles of competition, trade, uncertainty, and scale
AU - Meagher, Kieron J.
AU - Wait, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2013.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Using unique establishment-level data, we find that delegation of organizational change is more likely in workplaces that: face a competitive product market, export, have predictable demand, are part of a smaller overall organization, and have fewer workplaces in the firm producing the same output. Surprisingly, we find no significant relationship between import competition and the allocation of decision-making rights within a firm. Our results are robust to a range of specifications and to alternative measures of our key explanatory variables. (JEL D23, L23, L29).
AB - Using unique establishment-level data, we find that delegation of organizational change is more likely in workplaces that: face a competitive product market, export, have predictable demand, are part of a smaller overall organization, and have fewer workplaces in the firm producing the same output. Surprisingly, we find no significant relationship between import competition and the allocation of decision-making rights within a firm. Our results are robust to a range of specifications and to alternative measures of our key explanatory variables. (JEL D23, L23, L29).
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U2 - 10.1093/jleo/ewt011
DO - 10.1093/jleo/ewt011
M3 - Article
SN - 8756-6222
VL - 30
SP - 709
EP - 733
JO - Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
JF - Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
IS - 4
ER -