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Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations: An experimental study

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dc.creator Brandts, Jordi
dc.creator Cooper, David J.
dc.date 2007-10-31T15:54:07Z
dc.date 2007-10-31T15:54:07Z
dc.date 2004-10-01
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:57:51Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:57:51Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1780
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1780
dc.description Trabajo publicado como artículo en Experimental Economics 9(4): 407-423 (2006).-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-006-7056-5
dc.description Motivated by problems of coordination failure in organizations, we examine how overcoming coordination failure and maintaining coordination depend on the ability of individuals to observe others’ choices. Subjects’ payoffs depend on coordinating at high effort levels in a weak-link game. Treatments vary along two dimensions. First, subjects either start with low financial incentives for coordination, which typically leads to coordination failure, and then are switched to higher incentives or start with high incentives, which usually yield effective coordination, and are switched to low incentives. Second, as the key treatment variable, subjects either observe the effort levels chosen by all individuals in their experimental group (full feedback) or observe only the minimum effort (limited feedback). We find three primary results: (1) When starting from coordination failure the use of full feedback improves subjects’ ability to overcome coordination failure, (2) When starting with good coordination the use of full feedback has no effect on subjects’ ability to avoid slipping into coordination failure, and (3) History-dependence, defined as dependence of current effort levels on past incentives, is strengthened by the use of full feedback.
dc.language eng
dc.relation UFAE and IAE Working Papers
dc.relation 630.04
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Incentives
dc.subject Coordination
dc.subject Observation
dc.subject Experiments
dc.subject Organizations
dc.title Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations: An experimental study
dc.type Documento de trabajo


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