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...

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,...

"This research report makes the following claims: 1] There was not an unambiguous economic advantage of hybrid corn over the open-pollinated varieties in 1936. 2] The early adoption of hybrid corn before 1937 can be better explained by a sustained propaganda campaign conducted by the U.S....

In August the Soviet government agreed to the second one-year extension of the US-USSR grain agreement, which has regulated grain trade between the two countries since 1976. Although a net exporter of grain for the best part of this century, the USSR has become increasingly dependent on imports...

This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of grain reserves and grain banks. One important argument against establishing official reserves is that they are more likely to stiffen the barriers to food trade whereas a financial grain bank might be used to reduce those barriers. A...