The Comparative Statics of Optimal Hierarchies
研究了层级组织中不同层级特征互补但仅限于相邻层级的模型，提出统一方法分析组织特征比较静态，发现延迟成本增加会促使组织更多授权给低层员工。
Several classes of models of hierarchical organizations share two common properties: the characteristics at different levels of the hierarchy are complementary, but this complementarity does not extend beyond adjacent levels. We propose a unified yet simple approach to study comparative statics of organizational characteristics with endogenous number of hierarchical layers in all these models. We use this new approach to study organizational decision making, and show that increased delay cost incentivizes the organization to empower lower level employees more than upper level employees.