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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

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Organizations as discursive constructions : a faucauldian approach

Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, Aurélie - In: Organization studies : an international … 32 (2011) 9, pp. 1247-1271

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Secret agencies : the communicative constitution of a clandestine organization

Stohl, Cynthia; Stohl, Michael - In: Organization studies : an international … 32 (2011) 9, pp. 1197-1215

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Collective centring and collective sense-making in the stories and storytelling of one organization

Boyce, Mary E. - In: Organization studies : an international … 16 (1995) 1, pp. 107-137

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Bullshit and organization studies

Christensen, Lars Thøger; Kärreman, Dan; Rasche, Andreas - In: Organization studies : an international … 40 (2019) 10, pp. 1587-1600

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The choices of … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and … analysis, combining an informed principal with individually signaling agents, makes precise the notion of expressive law …

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