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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups 'such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes' are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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Several economists have directed our attention to a finding in the social psychological literature that extrinsic motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The crux of this theory is that people remember their...
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While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental … dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …
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Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team …, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this … individual team productivity which is closely related to eigenvalue centrality; accordingly we refer to it as eigenvalue …
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This paper analyzes situations in which a project consisting of several activities is not realized according to plan. Ifthe project is expedited, a reward arises. Analogously, a penalty arises if the project is delayed. This paper considersthe case of arbitrary nondecreasing reward and penalty...
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