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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
financial adviser behavior held by key personnel – financial advisers and their corporate leaders – in three settings: a clash …-the-job behavior and the actual norms shared among financial advisers. When there is a normative mismatch across the hierarchy we are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151026
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884090
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884296
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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823000
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876571
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Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
other people’s other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that people derive nonpecuniary utility (i) from … mutual cooperation in social dilemma (SD) games and (ii) from punishing unfair behavior. Thus, mutual cooperation and the … punishment of free riders in SD games is not irrational, but better understood as rational behavior of people with corresponding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233857
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283571
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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649821
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
reciprocity only if it is viewed as maladaptive behavior whereas the evidence suggests that it is an adaptive trait. Thus, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761704
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Punishment, Inequality and Emotions
Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which help enforce social norms (Fehr and Gächter, 2002). However, the rationale for costly punishment remains unclear. This paper reports the results of an experiment investigating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761756