On authority distributions in organizations: equilibrium

Some Results on Equilibrium Distributions

‎The equilibrium distributions have many applications in reliability theory, stochastic orderings and random processes. ‎The purpose of this paper is to introduce the equilibrium distributions and presents some results related to this issue. Some results are based on order statistics. ‎In this paper, ‎the generalized Pareto distributions are also analyzed and some basic relationships between t...

On authority distributions in organizations: controls

Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations

In this paper we consider the problem of the control of access to a firm’s productive asset, embedding the relevant decision makers into a general structure of formal authority relations. Within such an authority structure, each decision maker acts as a principal to some decision makers, while she acts as an agent in relation to certain other decision makers. We study under which conditions dec...

Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Product Distribution over SAPO-34 and ZSM-5 Catalysts: The applicability of Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Anderson-Schulz-Flory Distribution

The product distribution of methanol to hydrocarbons conversion over SAPO-34 and ZSM-5 catalysts was studied using thermodynamic equilibrium and Anderson-Schulz-Flory (ASF) distributions. The equilibrium compositions were calculated using constrained Gibbs free energy minimization. The effect of catalyst type was considered by setting upper limits to product carbon number due to sh...

Collusion in Organizations and Management of Conflicts through Job Design and Authority Delegation

We analyze a principal-supervisor-two agent hierarchy with supervisory efforts, provide a characterization of the equilibrium of the game, and show which regime improves efficiency between the collusion-proof regime and the lateral collusion one, under the assumptions that the principal is less informed, and that the side-trade is costly. By coping with the trade-off between the value of inform...