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 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 …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …

from an experiment conducted with a strategic market simulation game, we find that the accessibility of information results … not the components most closely tied to success, overall performance may in fact suffer. The decision-making process is …

. Consistent with organization design theory, the performance effects of boundary spanners and team meetings were mediated by …, however, the performance effects of routines were also mediated by relational coordination. Rather than serving as a …