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-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one … with recent standard economics' explanation of social identity in terms of conformity. Sen's concept of commitment is …
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the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …
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difference here. In sum, bundling works as a commitment device that enables the transfer of market power from one market to …
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We explore the role of firms in insuring non-verifiable output. As a device that allows workers to commit to thedelivery of their output, the firm arises endogenously as an alternative to the market if workers are sufficiently riskaverse and the firm can base its incentive payments on good...
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others. Starting from an … consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various cities involved …
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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but in … year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …
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in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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