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Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
Bolton, Patrick - 2010
What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. While learning helps...
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A Quantile-Based Test of Protection for Sale Model
Imai, Susumu - 2010
methods in the literature, our approach does not require any data on political organizations. We formally show that the PFS …
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation : The Case of the Craft Guild
Richardson, Gary - 2008
When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...
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Understanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial Competence
Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014
A manager's shareholders, board of directors, and potential future employers are continually assessing his ability. A rich literature has documented that this insight has profound implications for corporate governance because assessment generates incentives (good and bad), introduces assorted...
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Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence
Blasco, Andrea - 2016
We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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The Organizational Implications of Creativity : The Us Film Industry in Mid-Xxth Century
Gil, Ricard - 2014
We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or by monetary incentives, internal/contractual production...
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Routine
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022
Routine - maintaining the same schedule from day to day - saves time. It is also boring and inherently undesirable. As such, the amount of routine a person engages in is partly an economic outcome, with variations in routine generated by variations in the price of time, household income and the...
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
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The Organization of Firms Across Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …. Trust and the Rule of Law appear to facilitate delegation by improving co-operation, even when we examine "bilateral trust …" between the country of origin and location for affiliates of multinational firms. We show that areas with higher trust and …
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