Thesis
Essays in the organisational economics of management
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This thesis comprises four chapters on the organisational economics of management.
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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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+ Quinn, S
- Institution:
- Imperial College London
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Meango, R
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Economics
- Oxford college:
- Christ Church
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Woodruff, C
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- International Development
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- Examiner
+ Hansen, S
- 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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English
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2026-05-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Tom Schwantje
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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