new and unconventional research topics and methods. -- Academic governance ; rankings ; motivation ; selection … the "taste for science" by a "taste for publication". We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended …

measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …

between prosocial motivation and public sector employment is due to selection at the career start or socialization during the … in addition to altruism and risk aversion and by investigating selection and socialization. Using a largely … selection and no evidence on socialization as an explanation for this result. Our study offers important insight into the …

proposes a new empirical approach to evaluate the implications of rankings by analyzing a rich set of data on World Cup alpine … strategies after one-time successes. In sharp contrast to the growing literature on the positive effects of introducing rankings … among workers or students, we document novel empirical evidence for the potential drawbacks of rankings. …

by Bénabou and Tirole (2016), we demonstrate that rankings can reduce welfare distortions of optimal screening contracts …