, 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 …, integration may be value-destroying when motivation is sufficiently important. Providing functional managers only with "dotted …

in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of … play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …

We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one … communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …

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

-dependency and coordination problems. Second, we claim that the very process through which the gold standard was adopted played a …

performance can establish truthful upward communication, but creates a free-rider problem and raises the cost of inducing effort …