A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...

Theory suggests that employee trust is key to productivity in organizations, but empirical evidence documenting links between trust and constraints on performance is scarce. This paper analyzes self-collected data on public sector employees from eighteen Latin American countries and Önds that...

China and the European Union have an extensive and growing economic relationship. The relationship is problematic because of the distortions caused by China's state capitalist system and the diversity of interests within the EU's incomplete federation. More can be done to capture the untapped...