Technical, technological and managerial solutions in ensuring environmental safety

Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation

Three of the most fundamental changes in US corporations since the early 1970s have been (1) the increased importance of organizational capital in production, (2) the increase in managerial income inequality and pay-performance sensitivity, and (3) the secular decrease in labor market reallocation. Our paper develops a simple explanation for these changes: a shift in the composition of producti...

Ensuring Reliable Safety Standards

Managerial Inefficiency and Technological Decline in Britain, 1860-1914

British economic decline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been attributed to the growing inability of British industries to compete technologically and organizationally with their American and German competitors. This paper argues that British firms' growth and adaptability were hampered by organizational weakness and that the major cause of Britain's managerial problems...

Environmental policy and technological

Enabling Distributed Knowledge Management: Managerial and Technological Implications

In this paper we show that the typical architecture of current KM systems reflects an objectivistic epistemology and a traditional managerial control paradigm. We argue that such an objectivistic epistemology is inconsistent with many theories on the nature of knowledge, in which subjectivity and sociality are taken as essential features of knowledge creation and sharing. We show that adopting ...