Browsing Sloan School of Management by Author "Van den Steen, Eric"
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The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
(2007-04-27)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, ... -
On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)
(2005-09-23)This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share ... -
Organizational Beliefs and Managerial Vision
(2003-03-28)This paper studies, in a world with differing priors, the role of organizational beliefs and managerial vision in the behavior and performance of corporations. ... -
Skill or Luck? Biases of Rational Agents
(2002-09-24)This paper shows why, in a world with differing priors, rational agents tend to attribute their own success more to skill and their failure more to bad luck than an outsider. It further shows why each agent in a group ... -
Too Motivated?
(2005-07-08)I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is ...
