REPUTATION CONCERNS AND AUTHORITY IN ORGANIZATIONS

Doyoung Kim

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2017, vol. 58, issue 2, 89-106

Abstract: The paper studies the optimal allocation of authority in an organization where an agent, who has reputation concerns, strategically transmits his information to the principal. The optimal allocation of authority allows its holder to use more and better information in order to make efficient decisions. The paperidenti fies the mechanism through which the agentʼs reputation concerns affect his information transmission. It shows that under centralization the agent transmits his information truthfully to the principal only if his reputation concerns are low and therefore that the delegation of authority to the agent can be optimal if the agentʼs reputation concerns are high.

Keywords: authority; delegation; centralization; reputation concerns; information transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D82 D86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.15057/28956

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