Group decision-making in organizations often occurs in the context of influence relationships. We develop a theory anchored in a computational model to analyze the conditions under which social influence structures aid or hurt information aggregation. We find that a group is most likely to...

Is top-down organization design worth attempting at all, or should organizations simply let their members learn which patterns of interaction are valuable by themselves, through a bottom-up process? Our analysis of an agent-based computational model shows that weak enforcement of even a randomly...

In this chapter I outline the micro-structural approach to organization design, distinguish it from past approaches and describe what it promises. The essence of the micro-structural approach is to break down large and complex organizations into myriads of smaller organizations, linked together...