Arbeitspapier

The division of labor and the market for organizations

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and the need for coordination of the work of different workers, the present analysis focuses on the returns from multi-tasking, which is shown to arise from informational and technological complementarities among tasks as well as from the exploitation of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor market, and the distribution of firms across organizational forms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 528

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Arbeitsorganisation
Reorganisation
Arbeitsteilung
Verbundvorteil
Theorie der Unternehmung
Organisationstheorie
Industrieökonomik
Arbeitsmarkt
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lindbeck, Assar
Snower, Dennis J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2000

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lindbeck, Assar
  • Snower, Dennis J.
  • The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)

Entstanden

  • 2000

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