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This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North...
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Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral phenomenon that involves an overestimation of own capabilities. We introduce a model, in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation of the tasks. A rational manager tends to delegate...
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In the knowledge-based economy, universities are encountering dramatic changes. Their missions and functions are‘pragmatized’ because of emerging new players and competing markets for knowledge production, the availability of higher education to a wider range of social classes and age...
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This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
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heterogeneity, and human capital have an effect upon neighborhood trust, which is ordinarily considered as a kind of particularized … trust. The major findings are as follows: (1) Income inequality is associated with low trust for both young and the old … generations. (2) Age homogeneity and education have a detrimental effect on trust. However, this tendency is not observed when the …
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We study experimentally the effect of expectations on trustworthiness. Most subjects respond with untrustworthy behavior if they find out that little is expected from them. This suggests that guilt aversion plays an important role in inducing trustworthiness.
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suggested a model proposing that interpersonal commitment mediates the effect of trust and reciprocity on interorganizational … demonstrated that the relationship between trust and interorganizational commitment is in fact mediated by interpersonal commitment … commitment through trust, thereby ultimately helping to strengthen interorganizational commitment. …
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buyers). We describe two kinds of models of trust for such networked environments, absolute and relativized models, and use …
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to synthesize 10 essays on relationships between five constructs – reciprocity, trust, cooperation, interorganizational …, interpersonal commitments, reciprocity and trust. The ultimate outcome of this process is stability and maturity, which means … influence the content of their relationships. Another practical implication is that trust and reciprocity should be viewed …
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Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post punishments or rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
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