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This paper focuses on how attitudes affect entrepreneur’s strategy selection at the organizational level. It also …
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This paper explores leadership within organizations. Leadership is distinct from authority because following a leader … followers to follow her in situations when the leader has incentives to mislead her followers. …
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Two central puzzles about social norms are how they are enforced and how they are created or modified. The sanctions …-costly. Problems in creating and enforcing norms are related to which sanctions are employed. We use our analysis of enforcement and … creation of norms to analyze the scope of feasible government action either to promote desirable norms or to repress …
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}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting …, the impact of ex post incentives on informal contracts between principals and agents in bargaining environments in which …
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Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...
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The article discusses the possible cost savings of contracting out refuse collection in the Netherlands. According to foreign econometric studies, contracting out refuse collection leads to cost savings of approximately 20%. Our findings indicate that similar cost savings apply to the...
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This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on output...
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This paper examines a firm's ability to respond correctly to an unexpected change in the environment (i.e., its adaptability). We develop a model that allows for empirical examination of the impact of a firm's adaptability on its expected profits. The theory shows that a firm's adaptability can...
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The article examines the optimal choice of monitoring intensity when workers face external incentives (incentives that … be more attractive to other employers. Increase in such external incentives reduces optimal monitoring intensity but …
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sector this paper shows that investment incentives may vary depending on the applied auction scheme. The model is designed as …
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