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We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a … significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior. Matching individual behavior in the game with firm data on sales performance … also associated with fewer sales per day. Both effects offset each other, so that the overall association with total sales …
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We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was launched in May 2008 with the aim of increasing the use of the bicycle in the city. Since then, the...
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We study the performance of small retail sales teams facing an incentive scheme that includes both a lump sum bonus and … presence of an attainable bonus or kink on a work-day raises mean sales, and that sales are highly bunched at the bonus …
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selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market …
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In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits … bonus dollar an extra $3.80 of sales, and $2.10 of operational profit. The results show the importance of complementarities …
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-point rise in migrant-to-native ratio increases average firm sales by 4% and the number of registered firms by 5%. While the …
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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