Paola, Maria De; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 162 (2006) 3, pp. 424-449
This paper compares benefits and costs related to hierarchical and decentralized organizations in an agency framework. We show that the relative efficiency of hierarchy diminishes in contexts with asymmetric information. When effort is not observable, performance-related pay is required in order...