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knowledge hierarchies: a standalone construct

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Labor economics

organizational hierarchies in which workers handle routine problems and pass harder ones up to specialized problem solvers, economizing on scarce knowledge.

In labor economics, knowledge hierarchies refers to organizational hierarchies in which workers handle routine problems and pass harder ones up to specialized problem solvers, economizing on scarce knowledge. This meaning comes from Garicano (2000) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs labor4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904. https://doi.org/10.1086/317671

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