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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this … convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well as perceived fairness and cooperativeness. Our hypotheses are … than by reputation. Moreover, East Germans are found to be more risk loving than West Germans. In contrast to trust and …
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical … framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible … whether the average level of employee trust within the workplace influences workplace performance. We exploit the 2004 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051439
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129913
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
the corresponding social attitudes, notably rebuilding the generalised trust. We argue that changes are even slower in the …
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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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Employee Absence : An Organizational Perspective
Eskildsen, Jacob - 2018
We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...
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The Lure of Authority : Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Fehr, Ernst - 2012
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation
Commander, Simon John; Estrin, Saul; De Silva, Thamashi - 2023
It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups (BGs). As Asian economies move from extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business...
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How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?
Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2022
We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...
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