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Institutions matter: the comparative analysis of institutions
Frey, Bruno S. - In: European economic review : EER 34 (1990) 2, pp. 443-449
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Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2000
Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in … and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different …'s sustainable competitive advantage, we ask specifically what kinds of motivation are needed to generate and transfer tacit …
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Punishment : and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...
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Sicherheit, Strafe und positive Alternativen
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 61-72
Die Ökonomik der Kriminalität und die darauf aufbauende Ökonomik der Sicherheit konzentrieren sich vorwiegend auf Strafen als Mittel der Politik. Dies ist aus verschiedenen Gründen unklug. Zum einen gibt es eine Reihe von Bedingungen, unter denen Bestrafung nicht wirkt oder die Zahl der...
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Awards : a strategic management perspective
Gallus, Jana; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 8, pp. 1699-1714
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Awards of strategic signals
Gallus, Jana; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Journal of management inquiry 26 (2017) 1, pp. 76-85
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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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Rankings games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...
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Punishment - and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - In: Contemporary Economics 5 (2011) 2, pp. 90-99
This paper argues that the 'Economics of Crime' concentrates too much on punishment as a means of preventing crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285684
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Knight Fever: Towards an Economics of Awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2005
Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...
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