Organisation und Motivation : Eine ökonomisch-psychologische Einführung / von Peter J Jost - Der Mitarbeiter als Grundbaustein ökonomischer Organisationen - Individuelle Unterschiede zwischen Mitarbeitern - Ökonomisch-psychologisches Verhalten - Das Verhalten in Organisationen - Individuelle...

In this unique book, Peter-J. Jost provides a comprehensive economic-psychological approach for successfully managing employees. Based on the analysis of the employee’s individual work behavior, he illustrates that instead of treating employees as input elements of production, and managing and...

We examine the optimal organizational form of project evaluation and implementation under moral hazard. In the evaluation phase, two fallible risk-neutral agents sequentially screen projects. The approved projects are subsequently implemented in the development phase. We show that moral hazard...

We consider an R&D contest between n firms in the presence of external spillovers. Our analysis focuses on the effects of these spillovers on joint venture activities between firms. In particular, we are interested in how different budget responsibilities within the research joint venture (RJV)...

The recent development of 3D printing raises the issue of how to protect manufacturing firms from product piracy. In this paper, we are interested in potential regulatory requirements to protect firms from falling victim of product piracy and associated quality choices. We employ a...

Credence goods markets, such as those for car repairs and medical treatments, are generally characterized by an ex-ante and ex-post information asymmetry between the uninformed buyer and the informed seller. Previous literature demonstrates that efficiency and fraud in a monopolist credence...

The paper provides a framework in which suppliers of experience goods find it in their best interest to provide and enforce quality standards. This self-regulatory outcome is compared to various forms of statutory regulation, such as price regulation and quality regulation. The comparision is...