When Two Bosses Are Better Than One: Nearly Decomposable Systems and Organizational Adaptation

The authors’ names are in alphabetical order. The authors thank Thorbjorn Knudsen and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and helpful comments. The paper also benefited from feedback from Phanish Puranam, Metin Sengul, Gabriel Szulanski, Peter Zemsky, and the seminar participants at INSEAD, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, the University of Southern Denmark, Bocconi University, the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, HEC Paris, and the 2015 Theoretical Organization Models Society conference in Venice. Errors and omissions remain the authors’ own.