Arbeitspapier

Aggregate Information and Organizational Structures

We study information flows in an organization with a top management (principal) and multiple subunits (agents) with private information that determines the organization's aggregate efficiency. Under centralization, eliciting the agents' private information may induce the principal to manipulate aggregate information, which obstructs an effective use of information for the organization. Under delegation, the principal concedes more information rent, but is able to use the agents' information more effectively. The trade-off between the organizational structures depends on the likelihood that the agents are efficient. Centralizing information flows is optimal when such likelihood is low. Delegation, by contrast, is optimal when it is high.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 356

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Contract: Theory
Organization of Production
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
Thema
agency
aggregate information
organization design

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Celik, Gorkem
Shin, Dongsoo
Strausz, Roland
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
(wo)
München und Berlin
(wann)
2022

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Celik, Gorkem
  • Shin, Dongsoo
  • Strausz, Roland
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition

Entstanden

  • 2022

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