Designing incentives in organizations

Authority and Incentives in Organizations

The paper analyzes the choice of organizational structure as solution to the trade-off between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a top manager and two division heads. If it is more expensive to incentivize the division heads, the owner will prefer full delegation of authority to them to r...

Designing Organizations

Designing High Performance Organizations

Designing incentives for Boolean games

Boolean games are a natural, compact, and expressive class of logicbased games, in which each player exercises unique control over some set of Boolean variables, and has some logical goal formula that it desires to be achieved. A player’s strategy set is the set of all possible valuations that may be made to its variables. A player’s goal formula may contain variables controlled by other agents...

Designing Incentives in Online Collaborative Environments1

We consider collaborative systems where users make contributions across multiple available projects and are rewarded for their contributions in individual projects according to a local rule of sharing the value produced by contributors to the given project. This serves as a model of online social computing systems such as online Q&A forums where users invest their efforts in producing online co...