Authority and Incentives in Organizations

B-Tier
Journal: Scandanavian Journal of Economics
Year: 2017
Volume: 119
Issue: 2
Pages: 295-311

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Abstract

I consider a corporation that consists of an owner, a manager, and two divisions. There exist externalities between the divisions: if a division behaves cooperatively, its success will increase the performance of the other division. The owner creates monetary effort incentives and allocates decision authority over the divisions. I characterize how externalities and benefits of control determine the corporation's optimal organization. The introduction of endogenous incentives changes the major findings of the existing literature, because then concentrated delegation of authority over both divisions to one of the division heads will be optimal if cooperation is important and divisions are difficult to incentivize.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:scandj:v:119:y:2017:i:2:p:295-311
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25