Should workers of a firm be organizationally integrated to realize benefits from benchmarking? Or should they be separated to preclude horizontal social comparisons? This paper highlights a tradeโoff that arises if social comparisons in firms are endogenous. We analyze a principal multiโagent model
Strategic management and the internal organization of food marketing firms
โ Scribed by Richard T. Rogers; Julie A. Caswell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 510 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-4477
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