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Corporate social responsibility and ethics are part of business governance today and represents new ways of market adjustment for companies in quest of legitimacy in an uncertain environment. Tools such as codes of conduct or charts aim at clarifying business activities. However, in spite of...
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? In this paper the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. I show that the principal explains her evaluation to the agent if the evaluation turns out to be...
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behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …-being from both children and their parents. Applying the constructed communication measure in a continuous treatment empirical …
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
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communicated might matter. In a controlled field experiment, we study a minimally invasive change in the communication of a well …
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Reputation is a commonly cited check on opportunism in economic and social interactions. But it is often unclear what would motivate an agent to report another’s behavior when the pool of potential partners is large and it is easy enough for an aggrieved player to move on. We argue that...
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which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies. …
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Using experimental methods, this paper investigates the limits of communication and leadership in aiding group … communication and leadership are expected to help in coordinating on such an equilibrium. We consider an environment in which the …
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