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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

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

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

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The impact of taxation on international assignment decisions : a principal-agent approach

Martini, Jan T.; Niemann, Rainer - 2013

or executive managers, have to be assigned to temporary projects. In firms with many employees and various different …

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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance

Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024

Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...

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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade

Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016

How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...

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Competition and the role of group identity

Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019

more actively in the team-building task. …

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Group contests with complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...

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It's not my fault! : self-confidence and experimentation

Hestermann, Nina; Le Yaouanq, Yves - 2019 - Current draft: October 8, 2018

We study the inference and experimentation problem of an agent in a situation where the outcomes depend on the individual's intrinsic ability and on an external variable. We analyze the mistakes made by decision-makers who hold inaccurate prior beliefs about their ability. Overconfident...

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An explanation of (first round) contributions in public-good experiments

Weimann, Joachim; Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Heinrich, Timo; … - 2014

The dynamics of behavior observed in standard public-good experiments can be explained by imperfect conditional cooperation combined with social learning (Fischbacher and Gächter, 2010). But it is unclear what determines first-round contributions. We argue that first-round contributions depend...

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Can leaders persuade? : examining movement in immigration beliefs

Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - 2022

Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...

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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...

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