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effectiveness of these programs in actual organizational settings. We predict that the adoption of a team-based recognition program … were eligible to receive non-monetary recognition (i.e., thank-you card, token gift) as a team every two weeks. The results … support our predictions. We also find the benefits of team-based recognition extend to customer satisfaction and financial …
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This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm's profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...
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present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …
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A typical empirical study involves choosing a sample, a research design, and an analysis path. Variation in such choices across studies leads to heterogeneity in results that introduce an additional layer of uncertainty not accounted for in reported standard errors and confidence intervals. We...
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designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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groups of people. In this paper, we use a field experiment among students aged 11-16 years to study whether there is a …
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goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We use a laboratory experiment to compare team decisions to … contribute more to the public good than individuals. With a punishment option subsequently to the contribution decision team …. Extreme preferences for punishment are eliminated by the majority decision rule. Overall, team decisions are closer to the …
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side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in …
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of information exchanged between team members improves the teams' performance if and only if the teams strategically …
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