The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how - in the presence of differing priors - motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the two. The paper first derives a new mec...

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Main Author: Van den Steen, Eric
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37305