The Flattening Degree of Organizations: Theory and New Evidence
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- Lugar:
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Edificio 7, 3ª planta, Sala Seminarios 30
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Ponente: Pedro Ortín Ángel Catedrático de Organización de Empresas de Universitad Autònoma de Barcelona
Currículum breve
- Principal línea de investigación: Economia de les organizaciones y de los recursos humanos
- Ha publicado más de 30 trabajos tanto en revistas nacionales como internacionales, y dirigido 4 tesis doctorales.
Selección de publicaciones más destacadas:
Ortín P., Salas V. (2002), 'Compensation and Span of Control in Hierarchical Organizations.' Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 20, n. 4, p. 848-876.
Bayo A. y Ortín P. (2006) 'Internal promotions verus external recruitment: Evidence in industrial plants'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59, 3, p.451-470.
Barrenechea M., Ortín P., Rodes E. (2016), ‘Autonomy and Monitoring’, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 25, 4, 911-935.
Masson, J.L, Ortín P. (2019) ‘Entrepreneurship capital spillovers at the local level’. Small Business Economics, 49, 3, p.595-607.
Barrenechea M., Ortín P., Rodes E. (2022), ‘Employee selection, education and firm-provided training’, Business Research Quarterly, 25(3), 224–242.
Using a general model of production in hierarchical organizations, we define the flattening degree function and its determinants, problems of coordination, adaptation, incentives, andknowledge. From the theoretical model, we derive the reduced-form equations that determine theoptimal number of hierarchical levels and firm size, identifying the most appropriate econometric approach and comparing it with previous empirical studies. We estimate it using the European. Company Survey, finding that firms tend to have flatter structures when the abovementioned problems are smaller. The explanatory power of coordination problems is twice that of those related to other types of problems.