Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish: How Does Autonomy for Field Agents Affect Development Project Outcomes?
Event
2/9/16
Bureaucracies with field operations that cannot be easily supervised and monitored are often caught in two potential sources of dysfunctions: field agents using asymmetric information to their own advantage, and limiting fields agents’ ability to use the same information to improve projects. In his new paper, Dan Honig examines this trade-off in the context international development organizations (IDOs).