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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187320
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Industrialisation and de-industrialisation: England divides
Jones, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
National averages conceal powerful interactions underlying English economic development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The simplest operational divisions are north, south and London. Initially industry and business culture predominated in the south but this culture was seduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855238
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Building on the trust of management: overcoming the paradoxes of principles based regulation
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
communication can be achieved, how such communication – as well as an effective system of communication, is vital to determining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211853
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258965
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European union. identity, diversity and integration
Brie, Mircea; Polgar, Istvan; Chirodea, Florentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, Anthropological Representations of the Foreign Rural Development Model “Leader” in Romania ; II. EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION ; Ioana … Inference in Political Science. The Case of Experiments ; Paul APARASCHIVEI , Political Communication in Romania from a New …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259630
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Competences and skills training for the European negotiator provided by the Romanian universities
Chirodea, Florentina; Soproni, Luminita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Any negotiation involves multiple elements, which, by their dynamics, influence its conduct and outcome: object, context, stake, balance of power, strategy and tactics. Knowledge and effective use of these elements are essential to the success of the negotiator, being largely determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259772
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The dialogue in foresight
Serbulescu, Radu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
of this dialogue theory to match with modern communication tools, especially through Internet. Also, the major theme of …-word, foresight. When a dialogue is an ongoing process, it creates stable communication structures, or dialogical groups. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260934
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Building on the trust of management: overcoming the paradoxes of principles based regulation
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
communication can be achieved, how such communication – as well as an effective system of communication, is vital to determining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226954
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Spillovers in learning and behavior: Evidence from a nutritional information campaign in urban slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for spillovers in learning and behavior within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. In an experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower their price per calorie. Theory suggests that if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294681
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Asymmetric information in the civil wars, the Colombian case
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the armed conflict in Colombia. Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372512