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Although teams are an important structure of organizations, most studies on work engagement focus almost exclusively the individual-level. The main goals of this paper are to argue that the construct of work engagement can be conceptualized at the team level and to discuss theoretically some of...
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How does leadership work in teams? In this paper, leadership is grounded on both the possession of a private information by the leader and by her ability to communicate credibly with followers in order to induce them to expand high efforts. This paper reports an experiment testing the efficiency...
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This paper is concerned about the adoption of work teams and the factors that facilitate team adoption. It focuses on four factors - trade union, technological change, training of the workforce and shared mode of compensation. Both parametric and semiparametric estimation methods are used to...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between employee participation in work teams, profit sharing and consultation between employees and management, and wages. It uses matched employeeestablishment data from the British economy. It takes explicit account of selectivity that arises from...
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There is a trend in Swedish companies to use team-based organisational design when striving for process orientation. The first question put forth in this paper is whether this design supports a process orientation. Since the teams usually are rather autonomous it is not obvious that they become...
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Many empirical studies have shed light on the efficiency of peer pressure. I propose here to model peer pressure by incorporating in the utility function self centered inequity aversion. I find that opportunity for sufficiently inequity averse players to punish their peers, is effective in...
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This paper investigates whether the degree and the nature of economic and monetary policy interdependence between the … interest rates in the United States and the euro area. First, the paper finds that the interdependence of money markets has …. This indicates that the higher money market interdependence between the United States and the euro area is at least partly …
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Turkish Lira to test for long and short run causality and interdependence. The findings indicate that interdependence and a …
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function is a natural property for capturing a preference for greater interdependence. One multivariate distribution dominates … sequence of elementary, bivariate, interdependence-increasing transformations, and develop methods for determining whether such …
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This paper investigates whether the degree and nature of interdependence between the United States and the euro area … States and the euro area. The paper finds that the interdependence of money markets has steadily increased over time, with …
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