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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016
to the model is the role of a person's social identity in encouraging compliance to a norm. The strength of this identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446896
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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931754
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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906086
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What drives motivated agents? The "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
the agents' mission, stressing the importance of the economics of identity in labor market settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419478
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Priming in economics
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2016
priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663185
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Group identity and leading-by-example
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2012
We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common … identity between the leader and her followers is beneficial for cooperation: average contributions are more than 30% higher … than in a treatment where no identity was induced. In two further treatments we study the effects of heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392438
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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
the agents' mission, stressing the importance of the economics of identity in labor market settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401176
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Priming in economics
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2016
priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458630
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Group identity and leading-by-example
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2012
We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common … identity between the leader and her followers is beneficial for cooperation: average contributions are more than 30% higher … than in a treatment where no identity was induced. In two further treatments we study the effects of heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535527
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The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597402