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62 p, 2.6 MB Legitimacy, communication and leadership in the Turnaround game / Brandts, Jordi (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica) ; Cooper, David J. (Florida State University. Department of Economics) ; Weber, Roberto A. (University of Zurich. Department of Economics) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
We study the effectiveness of leaders for inducing coordinated organizational change to a more efficient equilibrium, i. e. , a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of randomly selected and elected leaders. [...]
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica 2014 (Working papers ; 947.14)  
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30 p, 197.7 KB Leadership and overcoming coordination failure with asymmetric costs / Brandts, Jordi ; Cooper, David J. ; Fatas, Enrique ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
We study how the heterogeneity of agents affects the extent to which changes in financial incentives can pull a group out of a situation of coordination failure. We focus on the connections between cost asymmetries and leadership. [...]
2007 (Working papers ; 691.07) - 10.1007/s10683-007-9182-0  
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54 p, 359.5 KB A change would do you good . . . An experimental study on how to overcome coordination failure in organizations / Brandts, Jordi ; Cooper, David J. ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
Many organizations suffer poor performance because individuals within the organization fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. Using controlled laboratory experiments, we study how financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. [...]
2006 (Working papers ; 606.04) - 10.1257/aer.96.3.669  
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32 p, 94.0 KB Observability and overcoming coordination failure in organizations / Brandts, Jordi ; Cooper, David J. ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
Many organizations suffer poor performance because its members fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. In previous research, we have shown that financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. [...]
2006 (Working papers ; 630.04)  
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46 p, 296.3 KB It's what you say not what you pay / Brandts, Jordi ; Cooper, David J. ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica ; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica
We study manager-employee interactions in experiments set in a corporate environment where payoffs depend on employees coordinating at high effort levels; the underlying game being played repeatedly by employees is a weak-link game. [...]
2006 (Working papers ; 643.05)  

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