We design a laboratory experiment to identify causal performance effects of top-down communication between managers and their subordinates. Our focus lies on communication that resolves uncertainty about the work environment but does not provide task-specific knowledge. Recent articles in the...

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...

This paper critically considers ‘additional' and ‘instrumental' explanations that economists have recently suggested in order to reduce the understanding of CSR within the limits of standard economic theorizing, and contrasts them with a ‘constitutive' definition as an extended model of...

Using two national culture dimensions, we show a strong interaction effect between culture and firms' corporate social performance (CSP), which significantly influences firm performance. Specifically, firm performance is higher in those firms where CSR initiatives are congruent with the cultural...

What do changes in top sales shares signal about changes in firm dynamics? I use an accounting decomposition to identify two sources of top sales shares growth: (i) incumbent top firms grow bigger; (ii) new top firms replace old top firms. Over the 1950-2019 period, incumbent top firms...

Microfinance is the arrangement of budgetary administrations to low-income individuals and to SMEs. An empirical study was undertaken to identify the relationship between micro credits from MFIs and the SMEs’ financial performance. Secondary data were collected from 17 SMEs in North Lebanon....

This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding the non-financial performance of firms through the lens of the OECD Well-being Framework. Building on existing approaches for measuring non-financial performance, it proposes a measurement framework and indicator set for what may be...

Effective Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) initiatives are those which are taken keeping all the stakeholder’s issues in mind including the legal, ethical, commercial and other expectations society has for business. There are many definitions of CSRs available. Many factors have led to...

This study aims to examine the effect of CSR disclosure on company performance among Indonesian companies listed on the Kompas 100 Index during 2018-2020. The company's performance uses four different measures: sales, net profit margin (NPM), return on assets (ROA), and Tobin's Q. This study...