Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260101 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2014:2
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
Collaboration in teams in which each member's output is critical to the overall success present organizations with difficult coordination problems. We develop a model and run simulations to analyze how costly communication affects team coordination and output efficiency. We show that absent any organizational routines to structure team communication the least efficient outcome is the most frequent organizational output. We then derive formal conditions and simulate efficiency gains for several communication routines that improve team coordination and organizational efficiency. Our model and simulation results match a broad range of findings from the experimental and organizational literature, help explain why collaborations involving several organizational units often fail, and suggest new tests for promising communication routines.
Subjects: 
Coordination
Communication
Teams
Routines
Authority
JEL: 
C73
D02
D23
L22
L23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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