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High in the hierarchy : how vertical location and judgments of leaders' power are interrelated

Giessner, Steffen R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Managerial bonuses, subordinates’ disobedience, and coercion

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Oechssler, Joerg; Shah, Anwar - 2015

This study provides evidence from a laboratory experiment showing that managerial bonuses can affect adversely a manager’s subordinates. In our set up, managers compete to obtain a large bonus which depends partly on the effort exerted by their subordinates. Managers can suggest an effort...

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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of … leadership is difficult to identify, as in agile and crossfunctional teams leadership is often determined endogenously. This … study exploits a unique opportunity to uncover the value of leadership in a non-routine task performed by teams with flat …

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The effect of perceived environmental uncertainty on budgetary slack : the pivotal role of sequential role ambiguity and job-related tension

De Baerdemaeker, Jolien; Bruggeman, Werner - 2015

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Delayering and firm performance : evidence from Swiss firm-level data

Kuhn, Dieter - 2011

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The...

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Hierarchy, coercion, and exploitation : an experimental analysis

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Oechssler, Joerg; Shah, Anwar - 2012

The power to coerce workers is important for the efficient operation of hierarchically structured organizations. However, this power can also be used by managers to exploit their subordinates for their own benefit. We examine the relationship between the power to coerce and exploitation in a...

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Positional wages, market wages and firm size

Brink, René van den; Ruys, Pieter H. M. - 2005

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the firm is determined by profit maximization under the...

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Hierarchical experimentation

Chen, Chia-hui; Ishida, Junichiro - 2015

We consider a bandit problem faced by a team of two heterogeneous players. The team is hierarchical in that one (the principal) retains the exclusive right to terminate the project while the other (the agent) focuses strictly on implementing the project assigned to him. As a key departure, we...

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On hierarchies and communication

Brink, René van den - 2006

Many economic organizations have some relational structure, meaning that economic agents do not only differ with respect to certain individual characteristics such as wealth and preferences, but also belong to some relational structure in which they usually take different positions. Two examples...

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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata

Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013

fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709507

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