In this article, we explore the potential tensions between the incentive systems of group of inventors and knowledge diversity in a high tech firm.

The aim of this paper is to present a “Minskian” model which explicitly deals with the influence of the institutional dynamics on the relation between finance, investment and economic fluctuations. First, the Minskian foundations of the proposed analytical framework are highlighted. Second...

This paper analyses the motivational dimension in the firm within different organizational set-up characterized by their levels of hierarchical pressures and two types of bonus rules Gausian and non Gaussian distribution perceived a more risky by the employees.

In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...

This paper attempts to give some hints for human resources management that are founded on a motivation-based economic analysis of incentives and the idea of relational capital. It is argued that cross-fertilization between traditional economic literature on incentives, experimental economics and...

This paper is organized as follows : First we show that the reference to the notion of group selection is coherent with the other parts of Hayek's thought. Second we develop the idea that recent works in terms of the emergence and evolution of social norms corroborate in part Hayek's theses in...

In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to one of the meetings of a seminar including Talcott Parsons, Wassilly Léontief, Paul Sweezy and other Harvard scholars, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper...

Cet article est organisé de la façon suivante : dans un premier temps nous montrons que la référence à la notion de sélection de groupe n'est pas incohérente avec les autres éléments de la pensée hayékienne. Nous développons ensuite l'idée que les travaux récents en matière...

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