Works
- Formal and real authority in organizations, Journal of Political Economy 105(1), 1 to 29, 1997
- Some simple economics of open source, The Journal of Industrial Economics 50(2), 197 to 234, 2002
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Industrial organization and the theory of the firm
Ideas
Career concerns in open source. Co-author, with Lerner, of the economic account of why programmers contribute to open source. Caveat: Preliminary; contested by later qualitative work on motives.
Formal and real authority. With Aghion, Tirole separated the formal right to decide from effective control and showed that real authority follows information. Caveat: A formal model.