 examination of key success factors in the organisation of purchasing  analysis of organisational design characteristics, including structural configurations, product or service characteristics, centralisation and decentralisation and mixed structures  visions of the future of purchasing from both the USA and Europe, and their implications for purchasing organisation  recent research findin...

The holonic manufacturing paradigm allows a new approach to the emergent requirements faced by the manufacturing world, through the concepts of modularity, decentralisation, autonomy, re-use of control software components. The formal modelling and validation of the structural and behavioural specifications of holonic control systems assumes a critical role. This paper discusses the formal valid...

In Europe, public schools are more and more going to be run as autonomous schools. From the point of view of the educational system, the current school reform is a process of decentralisation of competences and centralisation of control and regulations. At the level of schools as organizations, reforms concern organizational and pedagogical matters. Organizational autonomy and curriculum autono...

We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where institutions are salient. Specifically, latter affects coordination costs and thereby cooperative behaviour across constituent groups. Our theory highlights role elite lobbying for policies which favour them decentralised setting. The differences preferences over good allocation...