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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
this task. We show, that those announced beliefs lead to a self fulfilling prophecy as the reputation of the responsible …
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267674
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268518
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On reputation: a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the positive effects of social preferences on contract enforcement by … interactions, suggesting that it may aggravate price rigidities. Surprisingly, reputation in fact weakens the wage and price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268857
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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Mixed Up? : That's Good for Motivation
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2004
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276186
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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2006
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267633
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262563
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Gender discrimination in Job ads: Theory and evidence
Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing - 2010
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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