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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …
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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers : An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks
Freeman, Richard B.; Pan, Xiaofei; Yang, Xiaolan; Ye, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …
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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay
Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the …
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Quality Disclosure and Certification : Theory and Practice
Dranove, David - 2010
This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing …
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
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Peer Information and Risk-taking under Competitive and Non-competitive Pay Schemes
Brookins, Philip - 2016
Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...
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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production : Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
Horton, John J. - 2016
Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...
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Occupational Licensing and Accountant Quality : Evidence from the 150-Hour Rule
Barrios, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I examine the effects of occupational licensing on the quality of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). I exploit the staggered adoption of the 150-hour rule, which increases the educational requirements for a CPA license. The analysis shows that the rule decreases the number of entrants into the...
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Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring : Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
Chu, Jian - 2020
Audits are a standard mechanism for reducing corruption in government investments. The quality of audits themselves, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show greater leniency in evaluating prefecture...
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