Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design
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...To focus entirely on ex ante incentive alignment, however, is a truncated way to study organization—especially if all complex contracts are unavoidably incomplete and if adaptation is the central problem of economic organization (Chester Barnard 1938; Friedrich Hayek 1945)....
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...See especially Holmstrom (1989) and Holmstrom and Milgrom (1991, 1994), where the benefits of low-powered incentives in firms are featured. buyers, are similar but different....
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...So too has been research on organization theory, especially at Carnegie (some of it prefigured by earlier work by Chester Barnard)—where the names of Richard Cyert and James March join that of Simon....
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...See Holmstrom and Milgrom (1990) and Hideshi Itoh (1992, 1993) for other work on efficient side-trades. subjectivity....
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