Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit: How Costly Voting Can Foster Cooperation
提出一种通过投票实现协调的新机制，并应用于组织裁员理论：危机导致合作意愿下降时，共识性裁员可传递幸存者愿意合作的信号，从而提升效率。
We propose a new mechanism to achieve coordination through voting, for which we discuss a number of real-life applications. Among them, the mechanism provides for a new theory for downsizing in organizations. A crisis may lead to a decrease in the willingness to cooperate in an organization, and therefore to a bad equilibrium. A consensual downsizing episode may signal credibly that survivors are willing to cooperate, and thus, it may be optimal and efficiency-enhancing (for the individuals remaining in the organization), as the empirical evidence suggests. A variation of the same mechanism leads to “efficient” upsizing.