The article analyses the impact of contingent team governance on the costs of teamwork coordination. Contingent governance of teams is defined as a hierarchical intervention in teamwork, contingent on at least one team member?s request to do so. Contingent governance is an almost omnipresent...

This paper considers a variation of the partnership game with imperfect public information, in which teams are semi-autonomous. The only hierarchical intervention in teamwork is when a superior is called in by a team member to adjudicate alleged cases of free-riding or unjustified lateral...

The article studies the relationship between hierarchical and lateral control of team cooperation in organizations which rely on self-organizational team-work (flat hierarchies). The focus is on control which is provided by the organization's adjudication culture which is defined as the set of...