Organizational economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics, directed by Robert Gibbons of MIT, met at Stanford University on October 31-November 1, 2014. These papers were discussed:

* Benjamin Hermalin, University of California, Berkeley, "At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership"

* Rocco Macchiavello, University of Warwick, and Ameet Morjaria, Harvard University, "Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills"

* Mark Granovetter, Stanford University, "The Impact of Mental Constructs on Economic Action: Norms, Values, Moral Economy, Culture, Schemata, and Institutional Logics"

* Philippe Aghion and Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER; Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER, "Never Waste a Good Crisis? Growth and Decentralization in the Great Recession"

* Steven Blader and Claudine Gartenberg, New York University, and Andrea Prat, Columbia University, "The Contingent Effect of Management Practices"

* Timo Ehrig and Jurgen Jost, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, and Massimo Warglien, Universita Ca' Foscari, "A Formal Framework for Strategic Representations and Conceptual Reorganization"

* Guido Friebel, Miriam Kruger, and...