Wouter Dessein

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics

Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics

420 West 118th Street

New York, NY 10027

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

14

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Scholarly Papers (14)

Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-89
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2019
Wouter Dessein and Andrea Prat
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia University in the City of New York
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Organizational Capital, Leadership, Management

Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13513
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2019
Wouter Dessein and Andrea Prat
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia University in the City of New York
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CEO, Management, Organizational Capital

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Managerial Style and Attention

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-91
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2019
Wouter Dessein and Tano Santos
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia Business School
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Managerial Style, Attention, Managerial Fixed Effects, Firm Behavior

Managerial Style and Attention

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13527
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Feb 2019
Wouter Dessein and Tano Santos
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia Business School
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attention, Firm behavior, Firm Strategy, Managerial Style

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Organizing for Synergies

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 77-114, 2010 , Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 11-32
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Oct 2011
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)IE Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and University of Chicago - Finance
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Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-Evidence.

Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2020
Wouter Dessein, Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo and Chieko Minami
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Santa Clara University, Department of Marketing and Kobe University
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Organization Design, Local Volatility, Local Information, Coordination, Task Allocation, Delegation, Coordinated Adaptation

Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-Evidence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13938
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Wouter Dessein, Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo and Chieko Minami
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Santa Clara University, Department of Marketing and Kobe University
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Coordinated Adaptation, Local information, Local Volatility, Organization Design, Task Delegation

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Organizations with Power-Hungry Agents

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-90
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2019
Wouter Dessein and Richard Holden
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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Hierarchies, Delegation, Decision rights, Power, Organization design

Organizations with Power-Hungry Agents

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13526
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Feb 2019
Wouter Dessein and Richard Holden
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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delegation, Hierarchies, Organization Design, Preferences for Power

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Test-Optional Admissions

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 4422766
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Apr 2023
Wouter Dessein, Alexander P. Frankel and Navin Kartik
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, Chicago Booth and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
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Test-Optional, College Admissions, Social Pressure, Information Design, Diversity, Affirmative Action

Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/35
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Jun 2012
Wouter Dessein
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics
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Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Sep 2012
Wouter Dessein
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics
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Adaptation, Coordination, Firm Boundaries, Incomplete contracts, Managerial direction

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Managing with Style? Micro-Evidence on the Allocation of Managerial Attention

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Dec 2020
Santa Clara University, Department of Marketing, London Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Kobe University
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bounded rationality, attention, upper echelon theory, attention theory of the firm

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When Does Adaptation Require Decentralization?

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/29
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 May 2012
Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein and Niko Matouschek
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Management, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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adaptation, information, organization

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Price Delegation and Performance Pay: Evidence from Industrial Sales Forces

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1190
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2015
Santa Clara University, Department of Marketing, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, University of Arizona, Department of Marketing and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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compensation, incentives, pricing authority, evidence, empirical, asymmetric information, agent bias

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Pandering to Persuade

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Aug 2010
Yeon-Koo Che, Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik
Columbia University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
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strategic communication, outside option, pandering, delegation

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Strategic Communication: Prices Versus Quantities

Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 8, No. 2-3, pp. 365-376, 2010, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 11-33
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Oct 2011
Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein and Niko Matouschek
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Management, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9395
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Mar 2013
Wouter Dessein, Andrea Galeotti and Tano Santos
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics, University of Essex and Columbia Business School
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Attention, Coordination, Core competencies, Leadership, Organization Size, Organizational Design, Organizational Strategy

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Pandering to Persuade

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7970
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Aug 2010
Yeon-Koo Che, Wouter Dessein and Navin Kartik
Columbia University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
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Decision processes, Delegation, Multi-dimensional cheap talk, Pandering, Persuasion, Resource allocation