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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards their employers. We hire 446 workers for a one-time task. Within worker, we vary (i) piece rates; (ii) whether the work has payoffs only for the worker, or also for the employer;...
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Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships : Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2013
Moral hazard is endemic to employment relationships and firms often use performance pay and managerial control to address this problem. While performance pay has received much empirical attention, managerial control has not. We analyze data from a managerial-control field experiment in which an...
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M.; Leonard, Jonathan S.; Pilarski, Adam M. - 2021
management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally …, simulations from a counterfactual case show that major industrial relations events like strikes, slowdowns, and the TQM program …
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of Nclb
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2015
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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The Performance Effects of It-Enabled Knowledge Management Practices
Cappelli, Peter - 2010
The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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An Analysis of Divisional Investment Policies
Shin, Hyun-Han - 2008
This paper investigates the divisional investment policies of diversified firms. We find that investment of the smallest division of diversified firms is significantly related to the cash flow of the other segments. We then show that the smallest division's investment is more sensitive to the...
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The Cost of Diversity : The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2006
In a simple model of capital budgeting in a diversified firm where headquarters has limited power, we show that funds are allocated towards the most inefficient divisions. The distortion is greater the more diverse are the investment opportunities of the firm's divisions. We test these...
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