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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Mixed Up? : That's Good for Motivation
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2004
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276186
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Who Chooses Whom? Syndication, Skills and Reputation
Tykvová, Tereza - 2005
Syndication, which is a joint realization of one project/one investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many financial market segments. Within this paper we develop a theoretical model focusing on the dynamic aspect of syndication, namely...
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Contractual relations between European VC-funds and investors: The impact of reputation and bargaining power on contractual design
Schmidt, Daniel; Wahrenburg, Mark - 2003
reputation of VC-funds and changes in the overall demand for venture capital services. We find that established funds are more … participants care more about their reputation, have less incentive to behave opportunistically and therefore need less covenant … money. We interpret this as evidence that established funds have actually less reason to care about their reputation as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298250
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
this task. We show, that those announced beliefs lead to a self fulfilling prophecy as the reputation of the responsible …
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Reputation, social identity and social conflict
Smith, John - 2007
We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially composed of such agents. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266354
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Social preferences?: Google answers!
Regner, Tobias - 2009
experimental literature we find evidence that tipping is motivated by reciprocity, but also by reputation concerns among frequent … users with an established reputation for non-tipping tend to get low effort answers. In addition, we analyse how tipping is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266676
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...
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On reputation: a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the positive effects of social preferences on contract enforcement by … interactions, suggesting that it may aggravate price rigidities. Surprisingly, reputation in fact weakens the wage and price …
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