On the efficiency of hurdle rate-based coordination mechanisms

Leitner, S. and Behrens, Doris 2015. On the efficiency of hurdle rate-based coordination mechanisms. Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems 21 (5) , pp. 413-431. 10.1080/13873954.2014.973885

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Abstract

Financial resources are scarce, which is why corporate capital budgeting needs to employ efficient allocation mechanisms. This paper conceptually transforms the idea behind a hurdle rate-based coordination mechanism from an agency model into a computational model of a multi-divisional corporation with both heterogeneous departments and heterogeneous investment opportunities competing for the same source of funding. On the basis of our results, we reason that for heterogeneous investment opportunities a recurrent use of a hurdle rate-based coordination mechanism can work efficiently only if intra-organizational communication is assumed to be absent. We show that, if only a single investment opportunity can be carried into execution due to scarce financial resources, the heterogeneity of the competing investment opportunities positively affects the departments’ pay-offs, while the number of proposed investment projects negatively impacts departmental utilities derived from a residual income. The latter is why our results support the assumption that an emergence of cooperation is to be expected as soon as departments can establish interdepartmental communication, rendering a hurdle rate-based coordination mechanism inefficient.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1387-3954
Funders:	ERDF, BABEG and KWF
Date of Acceptance:	3 October 2014
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2017 17:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89901

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