Authority and Communication in Organizations

By Wouter Dessein. 2002

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Capital Allocation and Delegation of Decision-Making Authority within Firms (2014, positive): “This finding is consistent with implications from Dessein (2007), Stein (2003), and Ozbas (2005) that funds may be allocated to extract information from divisional employees.”
Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market: Theory and Evidence (2009, positive): “The concept of influence activities [Milgrom (1988), Milgrom and Roberts (1990) and Meyer, Milgrom and Roberts (1992)] in this paper take the form of signal-jamming, in which players ‘jam’ or distort signals that others receive [Fudenberg and Tirole (1986) and Holmstrom (1982)].”
Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms (2013, positive): “A main difference with Dessein (2002) is that here also under decentralization unit managers have an incentive to distort their local information, because of the strategic interaction between the two units.”
Misselling through agents (2009, background): “In most of the literature on strategic information transmission and delegation (e.g., Vincent Crawford and Joel Sobel 1982; Wouter Dessein 2002; Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek 2008), this preference divergence is given exogenously.”
Centralization of franchising networks: evidence from the Austrian franchise sector (2004, background): “…studies dealing with the allocation of decision rights exist in the organizational economics and accounting literature (Aghion and Tirole, 1997; Dessein, 2000; Harris and Raviv, 2002; Christie et al., 1995; Baiman et al., 1995; Nagar, 2002), no prior research—with the exception of Arrunada et…”
The Information Content of Bank Loan Covenants (2010, neutral): “Tirole (1994), Aghion and Tirole (1997), Dessein (2005), Gârleanu and Zwiebel (2008).”
The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights (2014, background): “…contracting literature led to an extensive analysis of institutions and organizations in terms of concepts like control rights, decision-making rules, or authority (e.g., Simon 1951, Grossman and Hart 1986, Hart and Moore 1990, Aghion and Tirole 1997, Dessein 2002, Bartling, Fehr and Schmidt 2013).”
Financial Literacy and the Demand for Financial Advice (2015, positive): “We focus on investors’ decision about consulting an advisor, while we refer to Dessein (2002) for the treatment of delegation.”
Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm (2006, background): “[18] Dessein, Wouter (2002), “Authority and Communication in Organizations,” Review of Economic Studies, 69, 811-838.”
Contracting for Information Under Imperfect Commitment (2004, background): “He shows that such message contingent delegation may be superior both to ex ante 2Dessein also looks at cases where the preferences are concave functions of the quadratic loss speci cation. or unconditional delegation as in Dessein (2002) and to unconditional retention of authority.”