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Business culture : the role of personal and impersonal business relationships on market efficiency
Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
more effective when contracts are unverifiable because they help market participants overcome problems of trust. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022699
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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950525
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The survival of unique corporate cultures
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016
In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457359
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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial
Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015
affect trust within producer organizations. …Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural … produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307900
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Third-party vs. second-party control : disentangling the role of autonomy and reciprocity
Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon D.; Landini, Fabio - 2015
This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308435
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The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308454
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765617
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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime
Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014
and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355860