Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "décentralisation"

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  • Innis Lecture: Can the Theory of Incentives Explain Decentralization? 

    Poitevin, Michel (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)
    This survey presents within a single model three theories of decentralization of decision-making within organizations based on private information and incentives. Renegotiation, collusion, and limits on communication are three sufficient conditions for ...

  • Organizational Design of R&D Activities 

    Ambec, Stefan; Poitevin, Michel (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    This paper addresses the question of whether R&D should be carried out by an independent research unit or be produced in-house by the firm marketing the innovation. We define two organizational structures. In an integrated structure, the firm that ...