I study a class of agency problems that are characterized by the existence of an underlying organizational hierarchy. Specifically, I analyze a two forked, three tiered hierarchy and I show that when the private information of the players in the second and in the third tiers of the hierarchy,...

The tendency for the members of a corporation or government to be resistant to change is explored in a model that encompasses two endemic features of such systems. First, the social system is modeled as a hierarchy, and implicit within it is a selection process that determines who advances to...

New public governance emphasizes less state, more market and more hierarchy as the cornerstones for effective steering of higher education institutions. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen German and European economics departments, we investigate the...

This paper aims to improve our understanding of the outcomes of e-mail use with hierarchy. We thus adopted a dual approach : after a first series of interviews, we conducted a multi-sites case study. We demonstrated the extended use of e-mail which is perceived as a management tool. Electronic...