How should organizations of intelligent agents be designed so that they exhibit high performance despite information … distortion? We present a formal information-based network model of organizational performance given a distributed decision making … environment in which agents encounter a radar detection task. Using this model, we examine the performance of organizations with …

We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …

We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …

This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affects their economic performance. We study a large business … across the performance distribution, we find that for undergraduates, three-women teams are outperformed throughout, but by … top, the best performing group is two men and one woman. The differences in performance are explained by differences in …

We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. Departing from the common practice of using … survival as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by … also more likely to fail faster. Not only is survival a poor indicator of performance, but its use as one obscures the …

Using financial measures of performance we investigate the sources of value creation in the U.S. brewing industry … and that the performance of individual leading firms is highly correlated. Our interpretation is that the success of …

manufacturer size for each JIT practice. Ten changes in performance attributed to JIT implementation are also assessed and examined … the JIT practices and of each of the changes in performance in small and large manufacturers. The results of the study … performance attributed to JIT implementation vary, depending on implementation status of specific JIT management practices and …

doctoral candidates who conducted a collaborative Ph.D. project outperform their peers in academic performance. Less …