Job Transfers and Incentives in Complex Organizations: Thwarting the Ratchet Effect

The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal's Problem.

1973 • 4,084 citations

An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem

1992 • 2,102 citations

Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation

1988 • 1,881 citations

Authority, Control, and the Distribution of Earnings

1982 • 1,287 citations

Prizes and Incentives: Towards a General Theory of Compensation and Competition

1983 • 1,039 citations

A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

1983 • 1,000 citations

The First-Order Approach to Principal-Agent Problems

1985 • 888 citations

The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization

1976 • 873 citations

Insurance, Information, and Individual Action

1971 • 620 citations

Factory and Manager in the USSR

1957 • 550 citations

Optimal Incentive Schemes with Many Agents

1984 • 541 citations

Planning under Incomplete Information and the Ratchet Effect

1985 • 529 citations

The "Ratchet Principle" and Performance Incentives

1980 • 462 citations

Repeated Principal-Agent Games with Discounting

1985 • 370 citations

Incentives, Risk, and Information: Notes Towards a Theory of Hierarchy

1975 • 365 citations

Hierarchy, Ability, and Income Distribution

1979 • 307 citations

The soviet economic system

1977 • 218 citations

Worker Allocation, Hierarchies and the Wage Distribution

1984 • 147 citations

The Soviet Prefects.

1970 • 81 citations

The Ratchet: A dynamic managerial incentive model of the soviet enterprise

1983 • 66 citations

The Pentagon and the Art of War

1985 • 38 citations

Managerial comparisons of four developed countries

1973 • 32 citations