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De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022

Companies typically control various aspects of their workers' behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers' ensuing reaction. In particular, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether...

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Delegating recruitment under asymmetric information

Sengupta, Sarbajit - 2002

relates to the candidates type . Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure or guaranteed …

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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Sliwka, Dirk - 2006

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announced her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...

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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Sliwka, Dirk - 2021

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318853

Delegating recruitment under asymmetric information

Sengupta, Sarbajit - 2002

relates to the candidates' 'type'. Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering 'tenure' or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001731780

Allocation of authority when a person is not a robot

Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - 2007

, and the relationship between the resources. Monitoring is then introduced to fine tune value of delegation. …

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Externalities and the allocation of decision rights in the theory of the firm

Bester, Helmut - 2004 - Version 1.3, April 2004

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that have external effects on other members of the organization. Because of contractual incompleteness, monetary incentives are insufficient to internalize these effects in the decision maker's objective. The optimal assignment of...

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Allocation of authority when a person is not a robot

Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - 2007 - This Version: July 2007

, and the relationship between the resources. Monitoring is then introduced to fine tune value of delegation. …

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How delegation improves commitment

Perino, Grischa - 2008

We often use delegation as a commitment device if a government faces problems of timeinconsistency. McCallum (1995, AER … P&P) challenged this practice, claiming that delegation merely relocates the commitment problem but does not solve it …. In a model where delegation and specific policies are subject to the same commitment technology it is shown that McCallum …

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Delegation and nonmonetary incentives ; [1]

Ambrus, Attila; Egorov, Georgij V. - 2015

-employee relationship. We study a model of delegation with an informed agent, where the principal may impose money-burning on the agent as a … some results novel to the delegation literature. First, money-burning is more likely if the principal is more sensitive to …

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