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 is an enterprise?
Session 2: Interactions
Session 3: Principal-agent relationship
Session 4: Compensation and performance measures
Session 5: Selection
Session 6: Beliefs
Session 7: Authority
Session 8: Relational contracts
Session 9: Coordination and coordination mechanisms
Session 10: Complementarity
Session 11: Limited cognition
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.
Assessment
100% assignments
Materials
Lazear, E. and Gibbs, Personnel Economics in Practice, Wiley, 2017.
Additional info
The timetable for this course can be found here. The is course is given on campus as long as all the registered students are commutable. If any participant is not commutalbe to the campus, the entire course will be given online.
ERIM PhD candidates 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. For external participants, the course fee is 1300 euro.
