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

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 … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

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 …

can be mitigated by real-time video conference communication …In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative …

respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the …) conferences. We find that the keynote speakers are the most important element in the preference for a conference, followed by the … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …

. Therefore, the negative effects, which are derived from the communication and integration costs associated with a more …

the parent's communication about sex on her adolescent's sexual behavior. OLS models indicate that female adolescents with … had sex, unsafe sex, or casual sex. The only exception is a strongly significant result that more communication about sex …