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Authority and Communication in Organizations

Dessein, Wouter·2002·Review of Economic Studies
DOI 10.1111/1467-937x.00227
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This paper studies delegation as an alternative to communication. We show that a principal prefers to delegate control to a better informed agent rather than to communicate with this agent as long as the incentive conflict is not too large relative to the principal's uncertainty about the environment. We further identify cases in which the principal optimally delegates control to an “intermediary”, and show that keeping a veto-right typically reduces the expected utility of the principal unless the incentive conflict is extreme.

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Authors
Dessein, W.
Venue
Review of Economic Studies
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2002-10
Volume
69
Issue
4
Pages
811-838
ISSN
  • 0034-6527 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-937X
DOI
10.1111/1467-937x.00227
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W2088703435
Cited by
964
References
2
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41.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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