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Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2014

Using an agency model, we show how delegation, by generating additional private information, improves dynamic incentives under limited commitment. It circumvents ratchet effects and facilitates the revelation of persistent private information through two effects: a play-hardball effect, which...

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Observable strategies, commitments, and contracts

Wärneryd, Karl Erik - 2014

We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent's rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit the...

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Commitment to pay taxes : a field experiment on the importance of promise

Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Torgler, Benno; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2016

The ability of a tax authority to successfully collect taxes depends critically on both its relationship with the taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering the commitment to...

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Cognitive flexibility or moral commitment? : evidence of anticipated belief distortion

Saccardo, Silvia; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020

Do people anticipate the conditions that enable them to manipulate their beliefs when confronted with unpleasant information? We investigate whether individuals seek out the "cognitive flexibility" needed to distort beliefs in self-serving ways, or instead attempt to constrain it, committing to...

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Dream teams and the apollo effect

Gershkov, Alex; Schweinzer, Paul - 2017

We model leadership selection, competition, and decision making in teams with heterogeneous membership composition. We … show that if the choice of leadership in a team is imprecise or noisy - which may arguably be the case if appointment … performers. We characterize the properties of the leadership selection and production processes which lead to the Apollo effect …

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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment

Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 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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Leadership and climate policy

Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021

This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris …? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer depends on how transparent the leader’s abatement technology is for … the followers. When there is no transparency and the leader has to abate to signal the abatement cost, leadership reduces …

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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of … leadership is difficult to identify, as in agile and crossfunctional teams leadership is often determined endogenously. This … study exploits a unique opportunity to uncover the value of leadership in a non-routine task performed by teams with flat …

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