Delegation of Authority In Business Organizations: An Empirical Test
通过有序概率模型估计，检验了经济理论关于企业决策权分配的决定因素，发现工厂运营复杂性、通信技术、所有权状况和产品组合显著影响权力是否下放给工厂经理。
This paper tests the predictions of economic theory on the determinants of the allocation of decision‐making power through the estimates of ordered probit models with random effects. Our findings show that the complexity of plants' operations and organization, the characteristics of the communication technologies in use, the ownership status of plants and the product mix of their parent companies figure prominently in explaining whether authority is delegated to the plant manager or not. In addition, the nature of the decision under consideration turns out to affect the allocation of authority.