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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
. shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced TMT leader departures …. While most firms do not experience smooth transitions to stable shared TMT leadership, a focus on value creation, in … conjunction with talent recruitment and promotion, enabled some firms to achieve stable shared leadership in spite of discord …
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Motivating Effort In Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence
Blasco, Andrea - 2016
We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456486
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How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
Cullen, Zoë - 2018
We study how employees learn about the salaries of their peers and managers and how their beliefs about those salaries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452880
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On the Dynamics of Human Behavior : The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation
Nunn, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I provide a theoretically-guided discussion of the dynamics of human behavior, focusing on the importance of culture (socially-learned information) and tradition (transmission of culture across generations). Decision-making that relies on tradition can be an effective strategy and arises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938773
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Routine
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2003
Routine - maintaining the same schedule from day to day - saves time. It is also boring and inherently undesirable. As such, the amount of routine a person engages in is partly an economic outcome, with variations in routine generated by variations in the price of time, household income and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469263
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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate social activities. Empirical evidence on how such norms emerge and in which environments they thrive remains a clear void in the literature. To provide an initial set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458432
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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
List, John A. - 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453544
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
Neidell, Matthew - 2008
We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464369
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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions
Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high...
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A Corporate Beauty Contest
Graham, John R. - 2010
that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …
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