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Communication within Firms : Evidence from CEO Turnovers

Impink, Stephen Michael; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper uses novel, firm-level measures derived from communications metadata before and after a CEO transition in 102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a...

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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control

Welsch, Roy E. - 1974

The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid assumptions, resistance, validity, prior information,...

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Workplace Knowledge Flows

Sandvik, Jason - 2020

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge …

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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending

Levine, Ross - 2019

We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...

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Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers

Guillouet, Louise; Khandelwal, Amit; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

(DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management … knowledge. We develop a model in which DMs learn general management by communicating with FMs, but communication effort is non … their FMs, are more involved in firm management, and perform better in simulated management tasks. Organizational barriers …

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Can Simple Informational Nudges Increase Employee Participation in a 401(k) Plan?

Clark, Robert L. - 2013

We report results from a field experiment in which a randomized subset of newly hired workers at a large financial institution received a flyer containing information about the employer's 401(k) plan and the value of contributions compounding over a career. Younger workers who received the flyer...

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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts

Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012

We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...

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