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| Author: | Ortmann, A. Squire, R. |
| Title: | A game-theoretic explanation of the administrative lattice in institutions of higher learning |
| Journal: | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2000 : NOV, VOL. 43:3, p. 377-391 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR AGENCY THEORY ADMINISTRATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors provide a game-theoretic model of academic organizations, focusing on the strategic interaction of prototypical overseers, administrators, and professors. By identifying key principal-agent games routinely played in colleges and universities, the authors begin to unpack the black box typically used to conceptualize these institutions. This approach suggests an explanation for the seemingly inevitable drift of institutions of higher education into such well-documented phenomena as academic ratchet and administrative lattice and builds an understanding of the organizational conditions in which drift would be restrained. |
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