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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867499
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when … being free to choose. See also the article 'Multitasking' in <A href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10683 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257185
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Biased Supervision
Delfgaauw, Josse; Souverijn, Michiel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
When verifiable performance measures are imperfect, organizations often resort to subjective performance pay. This may give supervisors the power to direct employees towards tasks that mainly benefit the supervisor rather than the organization. We cast a principal-supervisor-agent model in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257408
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The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, André van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144562
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: An Equilibrium Model
Fok, Dennis; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513242
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Capacity Constraints and Beliefs about Demand
Vikander, Nick - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper examines how a firm can strategically choose its capacity to manipulate consumer beliefs about aggregate demand. It looks at a market with social effects where consumers want to do what is popular, to buy what they believe others want to buy. By imposing a capacity constraint and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838601
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: An Equilibrium Model
Fok, Dennis; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256603
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Capacity Constraints and Beliefs about Demand
Vikander, Nick - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper examines how a firm can strategically choose its capacity to manipulate consumer beliefs about aggregate demand. It looks at a market with social effects where consumers want to do what is popular, to buy what they believe others want to buy. By imposing a capacity constraint and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257146
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The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, André van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257442
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Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute
This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two important features. First, the manager has more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450795