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Essays in the organisational economics of management

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This thesis comprises four chapters on the organisational economics of management.

The first chapter explores the use of rules by managers in making decisions. I develop a novel tool to measure the use of rules based on patterns in managerial decision-making, and implement this to survey senior Ethiopian human resource managers. I find that the use of rules is correlated in intuitive ways with a number of firm- and manager-level observable characteristics, validating the measurement ap...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
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Institution:
Imperial College London
Role:
Supervisor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Oxford college:
Christ Church
Role:
Supervisor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
International Development
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Examiner
Institution:
University College London
Role:
Examiner


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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford


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