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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further … be so that authors call for significant policy changes? These questions are difficult to answer, because rhetoric on the … wording in these studies and their prevalence to ask for policy intervention. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can a lso drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … when they call for policy activism or when they are more hesitant to do so. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a legitimizing image of their practices. The analysis is based on the example of two banks, both of which undertook massive staff and cost reductions between 2001 and 2003. Downsizing...
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … rhetoric used really reveals an author's prejudice on the topic which may also be reflected in data selection and thereby his …
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In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...
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Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...
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Im klassischen Beitrag von Salant, Switzer und Reynolds (1983) wird für symmetrische Unternehmungen gezeigt, daß bei Verfolgung einer Mengenpolitik Fusionen zur Einschränkung des Wettbewerbs nur dann für die beteiligten Unternehmungen lohnend sind, wenn wenigstens 80 % der Unternehmungen an...
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, and Malaysian managers. While German students play Nash, we reject the hypothesis that both Malaysian students and … managers select the Nash quantity. Moreover, Malaysian managers perform significantly less competitively than Malaysian …
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experiments, using both students and managers as subjects. Communication is implemented by two different devices, a 'standardized … triopoly. Moreover, managers behave in a similar way under the two communication devices, while students are more influenced by … the free-communication than by the standardized-communication device. In addition, managers select lower aggregate …
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