, 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 …

. Examples include market entry games, coordination games, and the bar-room game depicted in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind'. The …

play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …

This paper studies the stability of coordination between mission-driven non-governmental organizations (NGOs) competing … coordination under two classes of alliance-formation rules: unanimity and aggregative. If fundraising activities are strategic … complements, the grandcoalition (i.e. full coordination) is always individually stable and, under the unanimity rule …

We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …