background and purpose: this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between organizational structure and organizational performance from the perspective of the staff of 115 emergency departments of mazandaran province, iran. materials and methods: in this study, data were collected from the emergency personnel of different hospitals of mazandaran province, iran in 2014. moreover, data on two ...

Dynamic, partial centralization has received a considerable amount of attention in the distributed problem solving community. As the name implies, this technique works by dynamically identifying portions of a shared problem to centralize in order to speed the problem solving process. Currently, a number of algorithms have been created which employ this simple, yet powerful technique to solve pr...

The paper addresses the issue of optimal organization of production. I compare three organizational forms: centralization (one agent produces different inputs), decentralization (each of two agents produces a different input and contracts directly with the principal), and delegation (two agents produce different inputs, the principal contracts only with one of them). The key issue in the compar...

There has been much talk in recent years of devolving powers and functions from the federal government to the states. Some observers even proclaim a “devolution revolution” (Nathan 1996), the result of which will be a more efficient and effective federal government and more robust and responsive states. The generally recognized objectives of devolution include (1) more efficient provision and p...