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Compliance in teams - implications of Joint decisions and shared consequences
Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2019
In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with laws and regulations than single individuals despite imminent neg-ative consequences of uncovering misconduct? The recent prevalence of corporate delinquencies gives rise to this...
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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020
This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational … research that tests whether com-munication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asym-metries at the workplace. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174702
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2014
Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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Conversations
Köster, Mats; Voss, Paul - 2023
We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the conversation. Talking about a single topic allows them to delve deeper, making the conversation more informative (or enjoyable). To capture this dynamic, we assume that the marginal...
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Social preferences, trust, and communication when the truth hurts
Gehle, Jonathan; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2024
We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564280
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Deceptive communication
Alempaki, Despoina; Burdea, Valeria; Read, Daniel - 2021
In cases of conflict of interest, people can lie directly about payoff relevant private information, or they can evade the truth without lying directly. We analyse this situation theoretically and test the key predictions in an experimental sender-receiver setting. We find senders prefer to...
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Honesty in virtual communication
Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024
Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual … communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as … text or video messages, provide different levels of human presence compared to face-to-face communication. Given that human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528213
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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19
Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021
We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499623
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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India
Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017
A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...
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