PSE Internal Seminar

Du 14/04/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30

Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan

VANDEN EYNDE Oliver (PSE)
LEDUC Mathieu(PSE)

Corporate Culture and Organizational Fragility

Corporate Culture and Organizational Fragility : Matt LEDUC Complex organizations accomplish tasks through many steps of collaboration among workers. Corporate culture supports collaborations by establishing norms and reducing misunderstandings. Because a strong corporate culture relies on costly, voluntary investments by many workers, we model it as an organizational public good, subject to standard free-riding problems, which become severe in large organizations. Our main finding is that voluntary contributions to culture can nevertheless be sustained, because an organization’s equilibrium productivity is endogenously highly sensitive to individual contributions. However, the completion of complex tasks is then necessarily fragile to small shocks that damage the organization’s culture. ***** Cooperation between National Armies: Evidence from the border regions in the Sahel : Oliver Vanden Eynde joint with Marion Richard (UCLouvain/PSE) Military interventions often involve cooperation between different national armies. In this project, we investigate the extent to which the porous international borders in the Sahel region affect geographical patterns of conflict, and how the creation of an international armed force that can cross borders (the G5 Sahel) changed these patterns. We find that the G5 mission lowered the intensity of conflict locally, and that it changed patterns of geographical conflict propagation.

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