La organización interna como arma estratégica: descentralización y delegación

Abstract

In this article we analyze the choice, for strategic reasons, of the way in which a firm organizes itself with reagard to the degree of production decisions. We show that the organizational form can be used together with other instruments, such as the strategic delegation, to deter the entrance of rivals or to modify the degree of competition in the market. Our results show that descentralization used as an isolated instrument desincentivates the rival´s entrance while centralization enhances it but, combined with the instrument of strategit delegation, both organizational forms are posible in equilibrium depending of degree of substitutability of the goods.