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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Fehr, Dietmar - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships : Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco - 2015

workers' actual contributions to the team output is beneficial for the success of gift-exchange relationships. Yet, workers …We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the …

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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Englmaier, Florian - 2012

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers …

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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study

Grözinger, Nicola - 2020

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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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties

De Paola, Maria - 2016

basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …

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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...

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Do as the Neighbors Do : The Impact of Social Networks on Immigrant Employment

Andersson, Fredrik - 2009

Substantial immigrant segregation in the United States, combined with the increase in the share of the U.S. foreign-born population, have led to great interest in the causes and consequences of immigrant concentration, including those related to the functioning of labor markets. This paper...

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Peer Effects in Networks : A Survey

Bramoulle, Yann - 2020

We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects, the reflection problem is generally solved by network...

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Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Beugnot, Julie - 2017

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender heterogeneity that we test by means of a...

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