Creative Destruction and Firm Organization Choice

S-Tier
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Year: 2000
Volume: 115
Issue: 4
Pages: 1201-1237

Score contribution per author:

4.022 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Firms' organizational choices are influenced by external conditions such as the instability of the product market. In order to address this issue in a macroeconomic perspective, we embed the firm's choice of organizational structure in a model of growth through creative destruction, which induces endogenous market volatility. We find that an increasing supply of skill or globalization may increase the rate of creative destruction, the skill premium, and the skilled wages, and it may depress the unskilled wages. We use an original data set to test the empirical relevance of our theory.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:qjecon:v:115:y:2000:i:4:p:1201-1237.
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29