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Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
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substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …
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According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are … using a combination of ethnographic records, historical folklore information, global data on contemporary conflict events …, and large-scale surveys. The data show systematic links between traditional herding practices and a culture of honor …
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implications for culture-led welfare policies. …
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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 support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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complex tasks. This requires an appropriate corporate culture, governed by reciprocity, fairness and commitment. Such a … culture can be viewed as a refined form of exploitation, however, as it involves creating an atmosphere of mutuality for … profit. I shall argue against this thesis that the same attribution mechanisms which render corporate culture an effective …
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as organizational culture and structure. This study is the first to develop an integrated model which in addition to … existing organizational constructs (i.e., organizational culture and structure) explicitly accounts for the influence of the …
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workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are private information. In our model there are two types of workers …
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Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, however, because agents select into jobs. We conduct a real effort experiment with participants who...
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technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large …
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