This paper offers a brief overview of basic microtasking models and connects its developments with emerging management challenges that will need to be addressed in order to fully harness the capacities and skills of the crowd in different domain areas..

We present a novel theory of the employment relationship. A manager can invest in attention technology to recognize good worker performance. The technology may break and is costly to replace. We show that as time passes without recognition, the worker’s belief about the manager’s technology worsens and his effort declines. The manager responds by investing, but this investment is insufficient t...

In this paper, we investigate whether an increase in analyst monitoring, which improves the informational efficiency of stock prices, necessarily translates into firms’ managers taking more value-enhancing decisions (“real efficiency”). We show that when the manager’s compensation is tied to stock prices, then an increase in analyst monitoring weakens managerial incentives by making the firm’s ...

* We are grateful to Ulf Schiller for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. We also thank Yanruo Wang for excellent research assistance. Agency theory has for most part focused on the nature and efficiency properties of " complete " incentive contracts. Accordingly, a contract is viewed as a collection of " if-then " statements such that a specific payoff results if a particular...

City Ontology plays an important role in smart city management for data integration, reasoning decision support etc. With these managerial domain knowledge scattered among a large number of experts, researchers face a huge challenge constructing a complete ontology for city management. This paper presents a simple yet efficient method for non-computer science experts to construct an ontology. W...

This paper presents managerial attempts at implementing telehealthcare. Our longitudinal, ethnographic case studies document both successful and failed implementations across five health and social care organisations in England. We draw on theories of organisational identity, sensemaking and sensegiving to highlight how managerial organisational identities can inhibit the uptake of digital heal...

When a manager, an entrepreneur and outside investors interact under asymmetric information, outsiders limit their stake to eliminate insider cheating; and entrepreneurs offer managers a contractual wage sufficient to deter cheating. When capital is too expensive, this contract is infeasible, and owner-managers rule, otherwise entrepreneurialmanagerial pairs emerge. Individuals with managerial ...

Background Senior management and leadership are believed to be responsible for the employment of such initiatives and their own level of engagement appears to have a strong impact on the levels of employees’ engagement, theory suggests. This qualitative research explores the perceived levels, drivers and benefits, as well as the levels of managerial engagement at Organisation A, a leading suppo...

This paper investigates the managerial competences required for the complex interactions required to successfully integrate an Enterprise Resource Planning system into an organization—the ERP journey. A feature of the study (a five year longitudinal study of a Danish production company implementing SAP R/3) was the rise and fall of the ERP project managers. The study showed that different stage...