explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … important features. First, the manager has more information about a junior's ability than the junior himself. Second, the junior …

performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly …-up phase of business have quite a substantial negative influence on performance as measured by the survival probability of the …

which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies. …

. Two well-known network structures are hierarchies and communication networks. We give an overview of the most common … models of communication and hierarchy restrictions in cooperative games, compare different network structures with each other … and discuss network structures that combine communication as well as hierarchical features. Throughout the survey, we …

how communication mitigates this free-riding problem in an investment-timing game. In our baseline investment-timing game …. If more investors invest at the same time, they share the costs. In the communication treatment, subjects can freely … communicate before choosing the investment time. We find that in groups of two players, communication increases cooperation and …

performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …