A talk of interest to COR members….

Monday, April 27, 2015
3:30-5:00pm
SB1 5400

Faculty host: Chris Bauman

Boris Maciejovsky
Assistant Professor of Management
A. Gary Anderson Distinguished Faculty Scholar
School of Business Administration
University of California, Riverside

Information Aggregation in Organizations

One of the most basic requirements of successful organizations is their ability to extract information from their workforce, despite the presence of ex-ante private information and vested interests on part of the employees. In this talk, I will discuss some recent findings on how hierarchies affect information flows (Reitzig & Maciejovsky, 2015) and show that strategic information revelation is a function of organizational structure (Klapper, Maciejovsky, Puranam, & Reitzig, 2015). Finally, I will discuss some recent empirical findings (Maciejovsky & Budescu, in preparation), comparing the different information aggregation institutions of groups and markets with respect to their ability of withstanding explicit manipulation attempts.