We consider an organization with two projects which have productive spillovers. Three agents are active in this organization: two agents, each specialized in one project, and the CEO, who is a generalist. The organization owner first allocates authority over each project to these three...

Cooperatives are seen as the bedrock of democratic control and an alternative to capitalist enterprises but also as sites of ‘degeneration’ of democratic values and hopes. In this article, the authors conceptualize that cooperatives are a prime example of a paradoxical organization, which...

We give a constructive proof, to all orders, that each member of the non-commutative potential Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy is a Fredholm Grassmannian flow and is therefore linearisable. Indeed we prove this for any linear combination of fields from this hierarchy. That each member of the...

Theories of political accountability typically focus on voter-politician relationships. However, overall government performance depends on both elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats. Politicians are agents of voters while serving as principals to bureaucrats. We develop a model of...

Although strategic leadership researchers have started to focus on the role structure of top management teams (TMT), the hierarchical structure of TMTs still needs to be explored. In this study, we conduct an empirical analysis to understand better how TMTs are hierarchically structured and what...

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...

This paper proposes a model of equilibrium switching in coordination games such as collective participation in social changes. In our model, players are forward-looking but use level-k reasoning about their peers' choices. We find that equilibrium switching is deterministic and gradual, with...

The reasons behind changes in assortative mating remain difficult to understand. Using the text from matrimonial ads, we assemble a novel dataset to describe the evolution of partner preferences over time and space. Analyzing ads published in Canada, France and India between 1950 and 1995, we...

Using worker-level task data, I explore if women’s perceived comparative advantages in interactive tasks can contribute to a reduction in the gender pay gap. I find women receive lower returns to interactive tasks, even within occupations, despite increasing female employment shares in...

Do cities with higher administrative hierarchies always enjoy higher intercity connections? Based on an innovation of twin cities (Chengdu-Chongqing) in China, this paper uses machine learning methods (linear model, support vector machines, neural network and random forest) to predict the...

Changes in organizational structure affect the intra-organizational communication network. However, despite an increasing relevance of less hierarchical and less bureaucratic forms of organizing, the question of how self-managing forms of organization influence employees’ communication...