Bio
Bob Gibbons is an organizational economist whose research and teaching concern the design and performance of organized activities within firms (e.g., decentralization as a promise), between firms (e.g., alliances, joint ventures), and beyond firms (e.g., hospitals, schools, agencies, communities). He often studies “relational contracts”—informal agreements that cannot be adjudicated by courts—especially the difficulties in building, managing, and changing the shared understandings that must underlie relational contracts.