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Identity and Commitment: Sen's Conception of the Individual
Davis, John B. - 2004
with recent standard economics' explanation of social identity in terms of conformity. Sen's concept of commitment is …This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self …-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one …
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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement: evidence using random assignment to real social groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - 2006
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...
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Insurance and Information: Firms as a Commitment Device
Bovenberg, A.L.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001
We explore the role of firms in insuring non-verifiable output. As a device that allows workers to commit to thedelivery of their output, the firm arises endogenously as an alternative to the market if workers are sufficiently riskaverse and the firm can base its incentive payments on good...
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A theory of personal budgeting
Galperti, Simone - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 1, pp. 173-210
-specific budgets depends on the combination of a demand for commitment and the demand for flexibility resulting from uncertainty about … with minimum-savings rules (another widely-studied form of commitment), and how budgeting depends on the intensity of self …
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Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2011
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence
Mosel, Malte - 2012
Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...
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Competition intensity, potential competition and transaction cost economics
Busse, Matthias - 2002
As the process of globalisation of the world economy progresses, the degree of international competition among enterprises increases as well. Yet not all industries or branches are affected to the same extent by this development. One of the most important factors which determine the degree of...
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Transfer Pricing Based on Actual versus Standard Costs
Lengsfeld, Stephan; Schiller, Ulf - 2003
The use of information plays an important role in the choice of transfer prices (TP). We discuss the information provision of two centralized mechanisms, namely, actual-cost and standard-cost based TP. Actual cost based TP use all available cost information whereas standard cost based TP only...
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Vertrauen: Substitut oder Komplement zu formellen Institutionen?
Sell, Friedrich L.; Wiens, Marcus - 2005
In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir den in der Literatur heftig umstrittenen Aspekt, ob Vertrauen (Institutionen) nur ein Komplement zu formellen Institutionen (Vertrauen) sein oder diese(s) möglicherweise sogar substituieren kann (können). Wir fassen Vertrauen als spezifische, kooperative...
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Anti-Teilen in Teams
Kirstein, Roland - 2004
Soll der gemeinsam erzeugte Output zwischen den Mitgliedern eines Teams aufgeteilt werden, so kann dies die Anreize aller Mitglieder vermindern, unbeobachtbare Anstrengung zu leisten. Weist die gemeinsame Produktionsfunktion darüber hinaus positive Kreuzableitungen auf, so ist Teamarbeit zwar...
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