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We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …
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This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
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This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on behavior in organizational … research that tests whether communication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asymmetries at the workplace. The evidence …
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In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative … can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication. …
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of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long …-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition …
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We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
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Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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