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Supply theory sans profit-maximization
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. …
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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
Roider, Andreas; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2004
In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a "wall of silence"). Much cited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261919
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. - 2006
adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that parents will chose extreme ethnic and social traits in order to increase the …
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Doing good or doing well? Image motivation and monetary incentives in behaving prosocially
Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat; Meier, Stephan - 2007
This paper experimentally examines image motivation the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...
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The terms and relations of comparison, referential, and relative processes
Jasso, Guillermina - 2007
new unified theory, which also links the forces to identity and to happiness. Second, following the new unified theory …
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A new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces
Jasso, Guillermina - 2007
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …
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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams: theory and evidence
Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...
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