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Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations. An Experimental Study

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

Many organizations suffer poor performance because its members fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. In previous research, we have shown that financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. Here we examine the sensitivity of this result to the...

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It's What You Say Not What You Pay. An Experimental Study of Manager-Employee Relationship in Overcoming Coordination Failure.

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

, managers have two instruments at their disposal, increasing employees' financial incentives to coordinate and communication … with employees. We find that communication is a more effective tool than incentive changes for leading organizations out of … performance traps. Examining the content of managers' communication, the most effective messages specifically request a high …

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A Change Would Do You Good... An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

Many organizations suffer poor performance because individuals within the organization fail to coordinate on efficient patterns of behavior. Using controlled laboratory experiments, we study how financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. Our experiments are set...

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Legitimacy, Communication and Leadership in the Turnaround Game

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J.; Weber, Roberto A. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of … randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from …

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Not Just Like Starting Over: Leadership and Revivification of Cooperation in Groups

Brandts, Jordi; Rott, Christina; Solà, Carles - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

-way free form communication message sent by the leader to the followers strongly revives cooperation. We find evidence that … repeated free form communication by the leader further strengthens the reviving effect on cooperation. Combining the two … previous interventions does not outperform the pure effect of communication. Our content analysis reveals that leader …

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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics

Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

consensus. Our 2-by-2 design also controls for communication effects. In our data, communication makes vertical firms more …

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is inﬂuenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that (a) the GaleShapley...

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The Distribution of Talent across Contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most able contestants? Do contestants avoid competition? In this paper we show that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Positive sorting exist only when the proportion of high ability contestants is...

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Is Seniority-Based Pay used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...

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