WHEN ORGANIZATIONS MATTER

Ethical Considerations When Representing Organizations

When Does Morphology Matter?

The performance of an organism is the crucial link between its phenotype and its ecological success. When does an organism’s morphology affect its performance? Quantitative mechanistic analyses of how function depends on biological form have shown that the relationship between morphology and performance can be nonlinear, context-dependent, and sometimes surprising. In some cases, small changes ...

When does Heterogeneity Matter?

How do movements in the distribution of income a¤ect the macroeconomy? Krusell and Smith (1998) analyzed this question in a neoclassical growth model, and their results show that the representative-agent assumption provides a good approximation for aggregate behaviors of heterogeneous agents. This paper extends their analysis to a cash-in-advance model with heterogeneous money demand. It is sho...

When Organizations Speak: Isomorphism and Organizational Language

This work was supported in part by the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.casos.ece.cmu.edu ), the National Science Foundation Grant No. ITR/IM IIS-0081219 and an NSF Dissertation Grant on Organizational Isomorphism. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpr...

When Does Legal Origin Matter?

Abstract: A vast literature documents better economic institutions in common law compared with civil law countries. The present paper argues that legal origin alone is insufficient to explain differences in the quality of economic institutions across countries. Rather, it is the interaction between legal origin and the quality of political institutions that is important. Empirical evidence from...