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Desert and inequity aversion in teams
David, Gill; Rebecca, Stone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
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Leadership by Confidence in Teams
Kobayashi, Hajime; Suehiro, Hideo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We study endogenous signaling in teams by analyzing a team production problem with endogenous timing. Each agent of the team is privately endowed with some level of confidence about team productivity. Each of them must then commit a level of effort in one of two periods. At the end of each...
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on the efficiency of team-based meritocracies
Gunnthorsdottir, Anna; Vragov, Roumen; seifert, Stefan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
According to theory a pure meritocracy is efficient because individual members are competitively rewarded according to their individual contributions to society. However, purely individually based meritocracies seldom occur. We introduce a new model of social production called “team-based...
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Skill Diversity and Leadership in Team Production
Hattori, Keisuke; Yamada, Mai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a team-production model with heterogeneous workers, we examine the short- and long-run efficiency effects of skill diversity and leadership in teams. Our analysis focuses on workers' strategic incentives to manipulate their skills. In the short run, heterogeneous pairing (pairing workers...
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Does Team Telecommuting Affect Productivity? An Experiment
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Telecommuting policies have been increasingly adopted by employers. The benefits of telecommuting from the employer's perspective include direct cost-saving from not having to house employees in an office and indirect cost-saving through reduced turnover associated with increased employee...
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Team Production and the Allocation of Creativity across Global and Local Sectors
Nagamachi, Kohei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Team production is introduced into a two-sector Ricardian comparative advantage model in order to investigate its role in shifting high-skilled agents from a sector in which they have comparative advantage to a sector in which they have comparative disadvantage especially focusing on a case...
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Entropy, competitiveness and UEFA football ranking
Ferreira, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper intends to explore the utilization of entropy through football, generalizing the interpretation of entropy …. We consider it as a measure of competitiveness of football leagues and relate it to the UEFA ranking, which ranks yearly …
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International hostility and aggressiveness on the soccer pitch Evidence from European Championships and World Cups for the period 2000-2012
Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Some Researchers consider soccer matches as the stylization of a war in other battlefields. Such approach was largely used to interpret the violent phenomena related to the soccer environment, while less attention has been paid to the «potential» role of political and economic interactions...
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Emergence of a professional sports league and human capital formation for sports: The Japanese Professional Football League.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this … study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences … more likely to play football after emergence of the J-League than before it emerged. (2) There was a positive effect of the …
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An analysis of Champions League match statistics
Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Official match-play statistics from the Champions League tournament between 2001-02 and 2006-07 are used to estimate the impact of various variables on the performance of the teams, measured by goal difference. We find that offensive tactics measured by simple variables, such shots on goals, for...
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