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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 … results: (1) The use of full feedback improves the ability of organizations to overcome coordination failure, (2) The use of … full feedback has no effect on the ability of successful organizations to avoid slipping into coordination failure, and (3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547425
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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
with employees. We find that communication is a more effective tool than incentive changes for leading organizations out of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547458
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547461
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Market Openness and Culture as Factors that Shape the Gender Gap: a Comparative Study of Urban Latin America and East Asia (1960-2000)
Camps, Enriqueta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
In this paper we present: 1. The available data on comparative gender inequality at the macroeconomic level and 2. Gender inequality measures at the microeconomic and case study level. We see that market openness has a significant effect on the narrowing of the human capital gender gap....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851461
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Protestants and Catholics: Similar Work Ethic, Different Social Ethic
Arruñada, Benito - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
This article develops two hypotheses about economically-relevant values of Christian believers, according to which Protestants should work more and more effectively, as in the work ethic argument of Max Weber, or display a stronger social ethic that would lead them to monitor each others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547091
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Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict
Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal distances for ethnic and religious attitudes obtained from the World Values Survey. We use the Duclos et al (2004) polar- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of...
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