This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities …, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … 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 …

, which must be adapted to a privately observed shock and coordinated with other tasks. Coordination requires that agents pay … leadership naturally arise as a response to organizational trade-offs between coordination and adaptation. At the optimum, all … attention is evenly allocated to a select number of "leaders." The organization then excels in a small number of focal tasks at …

and contract theory, applying organization theories in labor economics, and using these theories to interpret the wealth …

The existence of complementarity across management practices has been proposed as one potential explanation for the … joint adoption of management practices have been conducted. Using unique detailed data on internal organization … for the complementarity of performance pay and decentralization of decision-making from principals to employees …

The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit … of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal … organization is coevolving with other organizations from which it can learn? (6) Can an organization evolve its way to a better …