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Multitask agency problems: focus and task clustering.

Part of a special issue on the papers and proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, held in Santiago de Compostela from September 1 to 4, 1999. The writers outline recent insights of multitask agency theory. They discuss the issues of effort substitution,...

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Publicado en:European Economic Review Vol. 44; no. 4/6; pp. 869 - 878
Autores principales: Dewatripont, Mathias, Jewitt, Ian, Tirole, Jean
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier Science May 2000
Materias:
Moral hazard
Organizational behavior
Agency theory
Task analysis
Performance evaluation
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Sumario:Part of a special issue on the papers and proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, held in Santiago de Compostela from September 1 to 4, 1999. The writers outline recent insights of multitask agency theory. They discuss the issues of effort substitution, conflicts between tasks, and implicit incentives and missions. In addition, they consider the problem of optimal task clustering.