On Broadway and strip malls: how to make a winning team

Roland Bel, Vladimir Smirnov and Andrew Wait ()

No 2012-14, Working Papers from University of Sydney, School of Economics

Abstract: A successful organization - or Broadway production - needs the right team. A potential issue is that an existing synergy between complementary agents (or assets) can reduce the marginal return of effort, creating a disincentive to invest. While agents always prefer to be in a team of complementary workers, a principal may wish to use non-complementary agents; this can occur if the loss from lower investment is sufficiently large. A principal, however, may opt for non-complementary agents when complementary workers would produce greater surplus. These insights have implications for job rotation, the centralization versus decentralization of decision making and mergers.

Keywords: mergers; assets; job rotation; task allocation; complementarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11
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