Episode 9: Raffaella Sadun on Communication in Organisations

Raffaella Sadun is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

The papers discussed in this episode are: “Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations” and "Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers”, by Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun.

Other papers referenced in this episode are:

Alonso, R., Dessein, W., & Matouschek, N. (2008). When does coordination require centralization?. American Economic Review, 98(1), 145-79.

Alonso, R., Dessein, W., & Matouschek, N. (2015). Organizing to adapt and compete. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(2), 158-87.

Arrow, K. J. (1974). The limits of organization. WW Norton & Company.

Bandiera, O., Prat, A., Hansen, S., & Sadun, R. (2020). CEO behavior and firm performance. Journal of Political Economy, 128(4), 1325-1369.

Cremer, J., Garicano, L., & Prat, A. (2007). Language and the Theory of the Firm. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(1), 373-407.

Hoffman, M., & Tadelis, S. (2021). People management skills, employee attrition, and manager rewards: An empirical analysis. Journal of Political Economy, 129(1), 000-000.

Lazear, E. P., Shaw, K. L., & Stanton, C. T. (2015). The value of bosses. Journal of Labor Economics, 33(4), 823-861.

Radner, R. (1993). The organization of decentralized information processing. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1109-1146.