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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony - 2014
This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly" face. The government influence plays an important role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061050
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324940
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Bénabou, Roland - 2009
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153511
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Citizenship and Integration
Gathmann, Christina; Garbers, Julio - 2022
Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and policies matter for integration. The article surveys recent quasi-experimental evidence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240655
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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2022
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083936
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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Benistant, Julien - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870452
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Business Ethics in Organizations : An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality
Bartuli, Jenny - 2016
The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an employee-organization context. In particular, we aim at identifying whether student subjects in the role of employees are willing to blow the whistle on their managers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983030
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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325141
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Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China
Li, Xin - 2016
Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and … stakeholders perceive and interact with each other in the state-led SRPs in Shenyang City in Northeast China. Through in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984848
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135314