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Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production
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This paper studies how communication allows for the specialized acquisition of knowledge. It shows that a knowledge-based hierarchy is a natural way to organize the acquisition of knowledge when matching problems with those who know how to solve them is costly. In such an organization, production workers acquire knowledge about the most common or easiest problems confronted, and specialized problem solvers deal with the more exceptional or harder problems. The paper shows that the model is consistent with stylized facts in the theory of organizations and uses it to analyze the impact of changes in production and information technology on organizational design.
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“Garicano (2000) establishes the seminal framework in which hierarchy emerges endogenously to economize on knowledge acquisition costs: workers handle routine problems independently while escalating exceptional cases to more knowledgeable experts, and the optimal span of control balances the benefits of knowledge specialization against communication costs.”
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“A canonical form is the 'knowledge-based hierarchy,' in which lower-level workers handle routine problems while escalating more complex cases to higher layers of expertise”
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- Authors
- Garicano, L.
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2000-10
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 874-904
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
- OpenAlex
- W3124613120
- Cited by
- 1,194
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 22.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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