Transparency Effects of Organizational Innovations (A02)

• Subject Area: Operations Management and Computer Science for Business Administration
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403041268

Rohlfing-Bastian and Schöttner (A02) explore the consequences of organizational innovations for transparency for different stakeholders of the firm, where transparency corresponds to the availability of decision-relevant information. First, they analyze the role of social preferences for the adoption of self-managed teamwork and the ensuing effects on within-firm transparency. Second, they consider the informativeness of key performance indicators (KPIs) reflecting a firm’s workplace conditions for different types of decisions taken by a heterogeneous group of stakeholders. They focus on the usefulness and effects of the standardization of such KPIs and firms’ incentives to strategically misreport this type of information.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 266: Accounting for Transparency
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Heads: Thomas Kourouxous, Ph.D., until 3/2020; Professorin Dr. Anna Rohlfing-Bastian; Professorin Dr. Anja Schöttner