for product quality. Panel analysis for the US and a randomized control trial in India suggest that management exerts …

Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …

that imposing control through an enforceable contract is only detrimental to principals in a special case when: (1) there … is a preexisting norm that agents provide high effort; (2) control is imposed unilaterally and has an asymmetric effect … on the agent; (3) control is weak (i.e. it cannot induce significant effort); and (4) the agent does not use control when …