We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...

Die Expertise bezieht sich auf das vom Akkreditierungsrat koordinierte System der auf Studium und Lehre bezogenen Akkreditierung, in dem sich die Akteure aus der Berufspraxis aufgrund seiner bildungspolitischen Relevanz engagieren. Sie bildet die Grundlage für eine Weiterentwicklung der...

Ist Qualitätsmanagement für Betriebs- und Personalräte geeignet? In letzter Zeit werden schrittweise Regelungen der Arbeits- und Einkommensbedingungen der Beschäftigten von der tariflichen auf die betriebliche Ebene verlagert. Mit zunehmenden Auseinandersetzungen um Arbeitsplatzerhalt,...

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and...

More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...

This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...