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Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … activities. An efficient communication protocol grants completeinformation payoffs to all organization members, thereby … strategies before being consulted. Under these assumptions, "public advocacy" is the unique efficient communication protocol …
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This paper addresses the role of dialogical communication in acculturation efforts within organizations and regions …, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations, and globalization. This optimal communication mode … dialogue process , as an integral part of intercultural communication training, aims at promoting dialogue competence for …
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, competitive and time-limited process. Each team has an optimal size depending on the project's quality. This is a random variable …
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We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … that random leaders are better able to use the knowledge within the team. We can show that it is the declaration of the … to the fact that overly influential leaders mislead their team. …
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Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in "stocks" affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...
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Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and potential users, this paper provides one of the...
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