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Public vs nonprofit incarceration : the case of the Netherlands

Wassenaar, Mattheus C.; Gradus, Raymond; Molleman, Toon - 2017

nonprofit organizations. In the Dutch experience, we have not found differences between public and nonprofit execution, with … respect to the type of contract with the prisons, costs and quality. The Dutch experience shows that outsourcing to nonprofit …

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Decision initiation, decision implementation, and the allocation of decision rights

Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015

implemented. Fama and Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …

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Optimal incentive contracts when workers envy their boss

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2006

lower in nonprofit organizations, and how governmental production of a good can be cheaper than private production. …

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The effect of noise in a performance measure on work motivation

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...

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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...

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