misalignment between managers and the firm, these two purposes are in conflict. This is because the worker with the largest private …: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the … firm owner optimally chooses the promotion rule, the degree of delegation, and wage payments to both employees and managers …

hostile behavior exhibited by managers. The motivations driving managers to adopt such behaviors are insufficiently understood …. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted a laboratory experiment examining the relationship between managers' use of … unfriendly leadership and labor market competition. We discern two labor market states: excess labor demand, where managers …

the need for a new theory of how cooperation emerges. …Wir untersuchen die Stabilität von Imitationsverhalten in einem experimentellen Cournot-Oligopol mit 1.200 Perioden, in … daher die Notwendigkeit einer neuen Theorie über die Entstehung von Kooperation nahe. …