When Does Coordination Require Centralization

By Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, Niko Matouschek. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives (2016, background): “…occurs for reasons not modeled in our theory, such as superior local or product-specific knowledge, middle manager empowerment, decentralization of business units, or negligible cross elasticity of substitution between divisional units (Alonso, Dessein, and Matouschek 2008, 2015; Rantakari 2008).”
Multi-Sided Platforms (2015, unknown): “…integrated firm and the MSP, and by the possibility of professionals holding pessimistic expectations when deciding whether or not to join the vertically integrated firm or MSP. JEL classification: D4, L1, L5 Keywords: Two-sided markets, multi-sided platforms, reseller, vertical integration.”
Certifiable Pre‐Play Communication: Full Disclosure (2014, unknown): “25 Particular forms of this class of games have been extensively studied in the economic theory of organizations as, for example, in Alonso et al., 2008 and Rantakari, 2008.”
The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization (2014, unknown): “This could also complement changes in incentives towards horizontal communication, as in an Alonso et al. (2008) type model.”
Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws (2017, unknown): “Such coordination games are studied in a variety of contexts, for instance, see Alonso, Dessein, and Matouschek (2008) for an application to the organization of a firm. direct partner than the rest of the population.”
Marketplace or Reseller? (2015, background): “See, for example, Alonso et al. (2008, 2013), although their focus on strategic communication (their 2008 paper) and the tradeoﬀ between information breadth and depth (in their 2013 paper) is very diﬀerent from ours. and b) that analyzes the agency model (suppliers set prices and share revenues…”
Introduction - Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age (2018, background): “Research also has looked more broadly at decisions around an organization’s design (Alonso et al. 2008, 2015), and the design of infrastructures (Hanseth and Lyytinen 2010, Henfridsson and Bygstad 2013).”
Communication and influence (2015, background): “Some recent papers (Dessein and Santos 2006, Alonso et al. 2008, Rantakari 2008, Dessein et al. 2013) explore decentralized decision-making within organizations.”
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India (2011, unknown): “(2007) and Alonso et al. (2008) for examples of principal-agent models.”
Organizing for Synergies (2010, unknown): “At the optimum, the organization then (1) biases the manufacturing manager towards his own functional performance, (2) mutes effort incentives (relative to the standard second-best risk-incentives trade-off) and, for a given level of effort, (3) loads some extra risk on the manufacturing manager by ”