Summary: Strategy & Organization Design

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  • (1) Underlying assumptions for agency theory (4)

    - all actors are boundedly rational (cognitive)
    - information asymmetry between principal and agent (information)
    - all actors are self-interested (motivational)
    - agents are more risk averse than principles (risk attitude)
  • (1) When it's difficult to apply solutions derived from agency theory (5)

    - the case of knowledge work
    - multitask situations
    - incentive life-cycles
    - unintended effects of monetary incentives
    - money is not all that matters
  • (2) Private ownership consists of two rights:

    - residual right of control
    - residual return rights
  • (2) Why does private ownership matters? (2)

    - optimal alignment of incentives
    - reduces complexity in transactions
  • (2) Forms of market contracting costs (3)

    - power inequalities
    - contractual incompleteness/asymmetric knowledge
    - asymmetric information
  • (2) Forms of ownership costs (3)

    - risk bearing costs
    - coordination and decision-making costs
    - agency costs
  • (2) Five features of a publicly listed firm (PLF)

    - investor ownership
    - transferrable shares
    - delegated management
    - limited liability
    - legal personality
  • (3) Four different forms of monitoring

    - board monitoring
    - concentrated ownership
    - shareholder activism
    - market for corporate control
  • (3) Three forms of bonding

    - performance dependent executive pay
    - stock options
    - managerial ownership
  • (3) Four different owners of a firm:

    - Investor owned
    - Customer owned
    - Supplier owned
    - Employee owned
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