We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms:...

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...

Die zunehmende Diskontinuität, Unsicherheit und Komplexität der Makro- und Mikroumwelt eines Unternehmens, stellt Firmen vor große Herausforderungen. Um den Managementprozess, der sich aus Planung, Umsetzung und Kontrolle zusammensetzt, optimal zu gestalten, werden spezielle Managementtools...

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...