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Optimal compatibility in systems markets
Kim, Sang-Hyun; Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We investigate private and social incentives for standardization to ensure market-wide system compatibility in a two … conflict of interest between consumers and producers over the standardization decision. Consumers prefer standardization with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424907
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434452
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Why are small firms different? : managers views
Agell, Jonas - 2003
care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511082
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110227
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …
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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority
Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024
Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470431
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Chinese experience with global G3 standard-setting
Whalley, John; Zhou, Weimin; An, Xiaopeng - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the development of an innovation society, and reduced reliance on foreign intellectual property with high license fees. Consistent with this policy, China has been involved in recent years...
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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