networks, our findings show that after the change process communication generally is less dependent on formal hierarchy …Changes in organizational structure affect the intra-organizational communication network. However, despite an … organization influence employees’ communication behavior has received only scant attention yet. In our study, we analyze the case …

mixed strategy equilibrium under communication, which strictly outperforms optimal restricted delegation and is relatively … find that, in case of delegation, managers (as predicted) put tighter restrictions when interests are less aligned. Workers … send more informative messages under communication than predicted by the pure strategy equilibria. This finding neither …

We analyze delegation of a set of decisions over time by an informed principal to a potentially biased agent. Each …

, we view the asymmetric allocations of authority and responsibility as essential features of hierarchy and examine why … hierarchies often prevail in organizations from that perspective. The focus of attention is on the tradeoff between costly … information acquisition and costless communication. When the agency problem concerning information acquisition is sufficiently …