Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
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- Friebel, Guido & Raith, Michael, 2006. "Resource Allocation and Firm Scope," CEPR Discussion Papers 5763, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
authority; incentives; strategic information transmission; theory of the firm; coordination;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-08-26 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CSE-2006-08-26 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-MIC-2006-08-26 (Microeconomics)
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