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Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership

In: 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2

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  • Roger D. Congleton

    (George Mason University)

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This paper demonstrates that a one-owner firm tends to overmonitor its employees. Because monitoring is imperfect, and penalities imposable on detected rent-seekers are limited by the opportunity cost wage, employees have incentives to engage in rent-seeking activities which both reduce and redistribute the firm’s residual. Since owner monitoring will be partly motivated by concerns over the distribution of the firm’s residual, a sole owner tends to monitor beyond the level that maximizes a firm’s residual. Appropriately diffuse ownership can reduce monitoring effort to efficient levels by diluting incentives for monitoring activities. A propos du contrôle des gestionnaires chasseurs-de-rentes: avantages d’une propriété répandue. Ce mémoire démontre qu’une firme à propriétaire unique tend à surcontrôler ses employés. Parce que le contrôle est imparfait, et les punitions imposables aux chasseurs-de- rentes qu’on découvre limitées par la taille des coûts salariaux alternatifs, les employés sont incités à s’engager dans des activités de chasse-aux-rentes qui, à la fois, réduisent les gains résiduels de la firme et les redistribuent. Puisque le contrôle du propriétaire est en partie motivé par ses intérêts dans la répartition des gains résiduels de la firme, un propriétaire unique tend à pousser le contrôle au delà du niveau qui maximise la taille des gains résiduels. Une propriété répandue proprement sur un plus grand nombre de personnes peut réduire les efforts de contrôle à des niveaux plus efficients en réduisant les incitations à contrôler.

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  • Roger D. Congleton, 2008. "Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership," Springer Books, in: Roger D. Congleton & Kai A. Konrad & Arye L. Hillman (ed.), 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2, pages 667-677, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-79247-5_40
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79247-5_40
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