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Urban Specialisation; from Sectoral to Functional
Gervais, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J. - 2021
combines elements of the literatures on economic geography, multinational firms, urban economics, and trade theory. A two …
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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2008
Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...
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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment
Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; von Siemens, … - 2021
Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire common knowledge. But if efficient production requires...
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How Do Trade and Communication Costs Shape the Spatial Organization of Firms?
Gokan, Toshitaka - 2019
We consider an economic geography setting in which firms are free to choose one of the following organizational types: (i) integrated firms, which perform all their activities at the same location, (ii) horizontal firms, which operate several plants producing the same good at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860578
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Bribery vs. Extortion : Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarree, Jacques P.; Yun, Sungho - 2021
Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317102
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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
Klus, Milan - 2020
categorise leadership skills included in the existing literature and associate them with tasks, management level, and leadership …-structured interviews with executives and systematically investigate job advertisements for management positions. By triangulating the … findings, we contribute new insights to the leadership literature and derive practical implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838249
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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment
Grosch, Kerstin - 2020
, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that … leadership, as they align dishonest behavior with their belief on group members’ honesty preferences …
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Norms and the Evolution of Leaders' Followership
Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2022
In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435735
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organisation away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the exsisting literature on the division of labour...
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