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Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation Than Men?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212812
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Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions
Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first is that the decline in the workforce was not random, and that the average worker was of higher quality during the recession than in the preceding period. The second is that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969215
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Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Brown, Jennifer; Matsa, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms’ ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job seekers accurately perceive firms’ financial condition, as measured by companies’ credit default swap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950763
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The Impatient Salesperson and the Delegation of Pricing Authority
Lazear, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950934
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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951103
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When Knowledge is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the "property rights" approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control important, non-human assets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085232
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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
Rebitzer, James B.; Votruba, Mark E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive … corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493265
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Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278249
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...
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