Governance of Information Systems, Enterprises, and Supply Chains


Aims

The goal of this course is to learn the topics at the frontier of the field, and desirably to develop contributions to your PhD-thesis.

Information

Governance of information systems, enterprises, and supply chains studies the design of incentives (contracts, ownership structures, …) and coordination mechanisms to channel business activities in value-creating ways.

 

Session 1: What determines firm boundaries?

Session 2: Compensation and performance measures

Session 3: Selection

Session 4: Property rights

Session 5: Relational contracts

Session 6: Influence costs

Session 7: Coordination and coordination mechanisms

Session 8: Complementarity

Session 9: Limited cognition and governance structure

Session 10: Reference points and identity

 

The lectures present the core ideas as simple as possible. This is done in a two-tier approach. First, the main topics are introduced at a master-level. Second, some of the classic articles in the field will be studied in more detail, depending on the level of the students participating in the course.

Exercises are assigned to prepare you for the upcoming lecture.

Assessment

60% assignments, 40% paper.

Materials

Text: Gibbons, R., Foundations of Organizational Economics, Princeton University Press, 2020.

Additional info

The timetable for this course can be found in the EUR course guide.

ERIM PhD candidates and Research Master students can register for this course via Osiris Student.

External (non-ERIM) participants are welcome to this course. To register, please fill in the registration form and e-mail it to the ERIM Doctoral Office by four weeks prior to the start of the course. For external participants, the course fee is 260 euro per ECTS credit.