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Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as...

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Physician-leaders and hospital performance: Is there an association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011

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Optimal incentive contracts under inequity aversion

Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - 2005

contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters …

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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion

Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters …

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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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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Sliwka, Dirk - 2004

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

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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...

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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