Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/988 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Seminar paper No. 628
Publisher: 
Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm
Abstract: 
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive change in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and the need for coordination of the work of different workers, the present analysis focuses on the returns from multi-tasking, which is shown to arise from informational and technological complementarities among tasks as well as from the exploitation of the versatility of human capital.
Subjects: 
division of labor
specialization
multi-tasking
organization of work
technological change
information flows
JEL: 
J23
J24
L23
M12
O33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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