Essays on Development and Organizations
Essays on Development and Organizations
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151354
- ISBN
- 9798382763101
- DDC
- 338.9
- 저자명
- Sen, Ritwika.
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Development and Organizations
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 297 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Udry, Christopher;Powell, Michael.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Managed organizations play a crucial role in economic growth and development. From family farms to artisanal workshops to large multinational enterprises, organizations are everywhere! This doctoral dissertation consists of three chapters that study the theme of organizational effectiveness using extensive primary data collection, economic theory, and empirical testing. These chapters are motivated by a fundamental economic question: why do some organizations perform significantly better than others, even within narrowly defined industries (Syverson, 2011)? Through my PhD research, I examine whether there are features linked to how production is organized that contribute to these persistent productivity differences.Chapter one begins with the observation that production often requires knowledge to combine physical inputs, which can be accumulated and deployed through communication within organizations (Garicano, 2000; Gibbons & Prusak, 2020). I design and run a field experiment to detect and quantify the impact of interactions between frontline supervisors and production workers in a data collection firm. My results are consistent with the notion that supervisors coach workers on the job and transmit tacit production knowledge to enhance worker performance.Chapters two and three shift the focus from knowledge flows to the need for coordination during the production process:In chapter two, I study the division of labor within small and medium-sized firms in Uganda. This is joint work with Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio and Esau Tugume We collect novel time-use data for a representative sample of firms in three bespoke manufacturing sectors. Our key finding is that there is limited labor specialization in these firms, with workers all performing similar tasks as if they were self-employed. These patterns shed light on the organizational barriers that these firms encounter, why they exist in the first place, and what we can do to improve their performance.In a similar context, chapter three studies how coordination across firms enables those with a relatively small scale of production to acquire access to large (or expensive) production machines. This is joint work with Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Tommaso Porzio, and Esau Tugume. Through detailed surveys of firm owners and their workers, we document that manufacturing firms operate within spatially concentrated clusters and share machine hours through an active rental market. This chapter underscores the importance of firm-to-firm interactions within informal clusters for the mechanization of firms in developing countries. Moreover, it suggests that rental market transactions costs mediate the extent to which firms within a cluster effectively operate as one entity.
- 키워드
- Development
- 키워드
- Organizations
- 키워드
- Production
- 키워드
- Rental markets
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Managerial Economics and Strategy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0163.
■653 ▼aDevelopment
■653 ▼aOrganizations
■653 ▼aProduction
■653 ▼aRental markets
■653 ▼aWorker performance
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■71020▼aNorthwestern University▼bManagerial Economics and Strategy.
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■790 ▼a0163
■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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