Come together: firm boundaries and delegation

We jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them by confronting an incomplete-contracts model with data on vertical integration and delegation for thousands of firms around the world. Integration has an option value: it confers authority to delegate or centralize de...

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Main Authors: Alfaro, L, Bloom, N, Conconi, P, Fadinger, H, Legros, P, Newman, AF, Sadun, R, Van Reenen, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2023