Language and the Theory of the Firm1
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An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is understood by its members but not by others. We develop a theory of optimal organizational languages and identify a key trade-o¤ between facilitating internal communication and encouraging communication with other organizations. Dialectsare suboptimal: two organizations will either share the same language or develop two entirely distinct set of technical words. This endogenous discontinuity in communication structure results in a discontinuity in rm structure, and a limit on rm scope. A broader scope allows for more synergies to be captured, but at the cost of less precise communication within each unit. Our theory reconciles two recent phenomena within organizations: the recent increase in information centralization and the reduction in hierarchical centralization.
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