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Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge
in Production
Luis Garicano
University of Chicago
This paper studies how communication allows for the specialized ac-
quisition of knowledge. It shows that a knowledge-based hierarchy is
a natural way to organize the acquisition of knowledge when matching
problems with those who know how to solve them is costly. In such
an organization, production workers acquire knowledge about the
most common or easiest problems confronted, and specialized prob-
lem solvers deal with the more exceptional or harder problems. The
paper shows that the model is consistent with stylized facts in the
theory of organizations and uses it to analyze the impact of changes
in production and information technology on organizational design.
I. Introduction
Organizations exist, to a large extent, to solve coordination problems
in the presence of specialization. As Hayek (1945, p. 520) pointed out,
each individual is able to acquire knowledge about a narrow range of
problems. Coordinating this disparate knowledge, deciding who learns
what, and matching the problems confronted with those who can solve
them are some of the most prominent issues with which economic or-
ganization must deal.
Yet, with a few recent exceptions, most previous economics literature
has equated the study of organizations with the study of incentive prob-
I thank Sherwin Rosen and Kevin M. Murphy for numerous comments and suggestions.
I am also indebted to Banito Arrun˜ada, Gary S. Becker, Cristina Bellido, Patrick Bolton,
Philip Bond, Robert Gertner, Tom Holmes, John Matsusaka, Derek Neal, Canice Pren-
dergast, Michael Raith, John Roberts, Antoinette Schoar, David Soskice, Timothy Van
Zandt, an anonymous referee, and numerous seminar participants for their helpful
comments.
[Journal of Political Economy, 2000, vol. 108, no. 5]
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