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The leader as catalyst : on leadership and the mechanics of institutional change
Majumdar, Sumon (contributor); Mukand, Sharun W. (contributor) - 2008
Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of political institutions, organizations and many instances of social and economic reform. Why are some leaders able to take advantage of opportunities to successfully catalyze large-scale change while others fail? In this paper we argue...
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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2019 - This draft: September 2019
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
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Yes, managers should be paid like bureaucrats
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Osterloh, Margit (contributor) - 2005
. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance … extrinsic motivation is reinforced. Based on the common pool approach to the firm, institutions are proposed which serve to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002572375
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Taxation, industry integration and production efficiency
Moriconi, Simone - 2016
Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509397
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Work organization, wage pressure in the secondary labor market, and the green card
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2001
Two trends have marked the politico-economic discussion in many industrialized countries in recent years. On the one hand, international production, workplace decentralization, shareholder orientation and generous manager remuneration have changed the face of firms in the primary economy. On the...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763540
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Fighting for talent : risk-shifting, corporate volatility, and organizational change
Friebel, Guido; Giannetti, Mariassunta - 2002
In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539048
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The dynamics of outsourcing : from labor cost-saving to preference-based outsourcing
Cheng, Wan-jung; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2020
Ronald W. Jones (2000) celebrated book has inspired a generation of work that has been devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of outsourcing. While much of this work has focused on the outsourcing versus domestic production decision of the firm with labor cost-saving as the key...
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Tax overpayments, tax evasion, and book-tax differences
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635226
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse (contributor);  … - 2008
brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions … ability and in public service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium … return to managerial ability is always highest in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772147