, 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 …

research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate … to the employer before a contract is offered (ex ante communication) and in which the employer can send negative or … positive feedback to the worker after the worker has chosen effort (ex post communication). The results indicate that feedback …

research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate … to the employer before a contract is offered (ex ante communication) and in which the employer can send negative or … positive feedback to the worker after the worker has chosen effort (ex post communication). The results indicate that feedback …

shown for face-toface decision making, which has ceased to be the prevalent form of communication in many IT …-based organizations. To test the robustness of higher group rationality under conditions of virtual communication, we conduct a social … learning experiment. We find that virtual communication leads to a substantial deterioration of group rationality for a …