Wouter Dessein

ThinkersEconomist

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Organizational economics of authority and communication.

Ideas

Organizing for synergies. Hybrid organizations create a built-in conflict between functional managers who want standardization and business-unit managers who want adaptation, which the allocation of authority must manage. Caveat: A formal model.

Organizational Structures that draw on Wouter Dessein (1)

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