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Becoming “We” Instead of “I”, Identity Management and Incentives in the Workplace.
Donze, Jocelyn; Gunnes, Trude - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2013
identity and positively influence their effort. We develop an agency model, in which employees have both a personal and a … incentives. Second, by creating a shared identity in the workforce, the firm is able to reduce the adverse selection problem. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004041
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Becoming “We” Instead of “I”, Identity Management and Incentives in the Workplace.
Donze, Jocelyn; Gunnes, Trude - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2015
In this article, we propose to view the firm as a locus of socialization in which employees with heterogeneous work attitudes can be motivated and coordinated through adherence to a social ideal of effort. We develop an agency model in which employees have both a personal and a social ideal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210986
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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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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319469
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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765609
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884174
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More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
Del Carpio, Lucía; Guadalupe, Maria - 2018
This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational …-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology … sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931841
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545
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This is how we do it: How social norms and social identity shape decision making under uncertainty
Lipari, Francesca - In: Games 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-31
social identity (i.e., diachronic identity), and how those beliefs affect individual decisions under uncertainty. The paper … acceptable attributes of an individual identity, also drive individuals' preferences for information acquisition or avoidance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227742
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Identity, utility, and cooperative behaviour : an evolutionary perspective
Wichardt, Philipp C. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 2, pp. 418-443
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