Since Kurt Lewin (1947) first published his article Frontiers in Group Dynamics 75 years ago, countless publications in the form of articles and books have been written on the topic of organizational change. There remains a great deal to be discussed and deliberated about organizational change....

This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency’s total surplus within an linear agency framework with multiple tasks. It provides a decomposition of agency costs, leading back to a congruity index previously proposed in the literature. In addition,...

We develop a model to show that cartels that produce goods with lower durability are easier to sustain implicitly. This observation gen- erates the following results: 1) implicit cartels have an incentive to pro- duce goods with an inefficiently low level of durability; 2) a monopoly or explicit...