On authority distributions in organizations: Equilibrium

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-152

  Hu, Xingwei ^a   Shapley, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative power; Authority distribution; Command game; Markov chain; Organizational choice; Planning; Power index; Ranking; Simple game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141480795     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-8256(03)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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