Transparency Regulation and Organizational Design (B03)

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

Using principal/agent, archival, and field studies, Hofmann and Schwaiger (B03) investigate the effects of transparency regulation on the firm’s organizational design and (within-firm) transparency. They incorporate externalities associated with a firm’s economic activities. In particular, they examine the contracting and measurement implications when economic actors care about the firm’s externalities, how to manage externalities in a hierarchy of agents, and the interactions between externality-related norms, organizational design, and firm transparency.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 266: Accounting for Transparency
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Christian Hofmann; Dr. Nina Schwaiger