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Explicit and Latent Authority in Hierarchical Organizations

van den Brink, René; Gilles, Robert P. - 2003

decisionmakers into a general structure of formal authority relations. Within such an authority structure, each decision maker acts … under which conditions decision makers decide to exercise their own authority and to accept their superiors' authority ….We distinguish two types of behavior within such an authority situation. First, we investigate a non-cooperative equilibrium concept …

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Confidence Management: On Interpersonal Comparisons in Teams

Crutzen, Benoît S.Y.; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2007

Organization differ in the degree to which they differentiate employees by ability. We analyse how the effect of differentiation on employee morale may explain this variation. By comparing employees using ordinary talk, a manager boosts the self-image of some, but hurts that of others. Whether...

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Why Are Residents Reluctant to Consult Attending Physicians?

Swank, Otto H. - 2009

A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...

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Why are Residents Reluctant to Consult Attending Physicians?

Swank, Otto H. - 2009

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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur

Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - 2009

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...

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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2010

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs,...

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Trade between China and the Netherlands: a Case Study of Globalization

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Hayat, Raphie - 2008

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in bilateral trade flows between China and most other countries. Using a time series based gravity model, this paper investigates the main determinants of this increase. The empirical...

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - 2008

This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...

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Labour Market Effects of International Fragmentation of Production; Evidence from a Survey and Case Studies in the Dutch Industry

Berghuis, Ebel; den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2013

In this era of globalisation the traditional Ricardian theory of trade in products governed by comparative advantages is replaced by a modern theory of trade in tasks. Tasks are outsourced to those places in the world where the lower production costs outweigh the additional transaction costs...

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Managing Transaction Costs in International Production; Evidence on Entrepreneurship from Case Studies in The Netherlands

Berghuis, Ebel; den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2013

This era of globalisation is characterized by an ongoing international fragmentation of production where the supply chain is split up in more and more parts. The traditional Ricardian theory of trade in products governed by comparative advantages is replaced by a modern theory of trade in tasks....

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