, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i …This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit …

-unit managers’ authority. Realizing synergies then involves a tradeoff between motivation and coordination. Motivating managers …

in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of … play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …

We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one … communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …