We present a formal model of how the size of a firm’s administrative staff depends on the environment in which it operates. We consider a monopolist that introduces a new product in the face of market uncertainty. In a model that incorporates an informationprocessing view of the managerial hierarchies into a product choice problem, we relate optimal size of organizations to the speed of change ...

According to the widely used Managerial Power Model, a higher hierarchical position with associated higher power leads to higher compensation. In contrast, the Compensating Wage Differentials Model argues that there is a non-positive relationship between positional power and total compensation. Both power and income yield utility and in equilibrium managers are prepared to trade-off the two ele...

Developing and installing a computerobased system in an organization can have major impacts on the tasks performed by participants in that organization. In recent years, an increasing share of systems development effort has been directed toward systems to support managerial decision making. These systems require a far greater degree of individual change than did earlier, clerical replacement sy...

BACKGROUND The regulations of the Quality Management System (QMS) implementation in health care organizations were approved by the Lithuanian Ministry of Health in 1998. Following the above regulations, general managers of health care organizations had to initiate the QMS implementation in hospitals. As no research on the QMS implementation has been carried out in Lithuanian support treatment a...

The problem of total participation in asynchronous meetings convened with distributed group support systems has been noted frequently but investigated rarely. This paper describes a portion of a large field study using the distributed group support system WebWide Participation in which explanations for meeting involvement (and noninvolvement) were explored. In particular, three WebWide meetings...

This paper examines the effects of Information Technology (IT) on the governance structure of vertically−related firms that are applying IT in search of competitive advantage via superior efficiency. By adopting transaction costs and resource−based perspectives on IT and governance, this paper examines how different types of IT systems change the boundary of the firm. It is proposed that a high...

The purpose of this article is to describe managerial guidelines to support parents with the hospitalisation of their child in a private paediatric unit. The hospitalisation of a child is regarded as a major stressor for both parents and child. The role of the family in participating in a child's illness is slowly being recognised (Kibel & Wagstaff 2001:544), but the South African government pe...

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