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Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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Consistency in organization (updated)

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011

modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …

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Consistency in organization

Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Motivational goal bracketing

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009

It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...

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Work meaningfulness and effort

Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for … competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model …

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The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option

Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...

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Aligning ambition and incentives

Koch, Alexander K. (contributor); … - 2005

In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and has profound implications for the design of incentive contracts. We show that the principal...

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …

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The interplay between organizational structure, culture and employees' socio-emotional skills within their social capital

Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022

Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...

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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

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