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Ramalingam, Abhijit; Rauh, Michael T. - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 12, pp. 2191-2206

Why do firms exist? What is their function? What do managers do? What is the role, if any, of social motivation in the market? In this paper, we address these questions with a new theory of the firm, which unites some major themes in management, principal-agent theory, and economic sociology. We...

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Del desespero de Greenspan a la esperanza de Obama: las bases científicas de la cooperación como principios de regulación

Benkler, Yochai - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 12 (2010) July-December, pp. 29-53

A common assumption, often accepted by regulators – that individuals act only in their narrow self-interest – is false. Evidence from both the natural and social sciences suggests that most people are strongly motivated to cooperate and help one another. Organizations (such as Toyota and...

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Crying Over Spilt Milk: Sunk Costs, Fairness Norms and the Hold-up Problem

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - In: Studies in Microeconomics 1 (2013) 2, pp. 113-129

This article explores a possible connection between two behavioural anomalies in economics, the observed responsiveness of individual decision makers to sunk costs, and the apparent failure of backward induction to predict outcomes in experimental bargaining games. In particular, we show that...

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Trust and Adaptive Rationality : towards a new paradigm in trust research

Rompf, Stephan - 2012

Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches trust, this book provides a general theoretical … framework to explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative … model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at advancing a "cognitive turn" in trust research by highlighting the importance …

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The mission and culture of the corporation

Gervai, Pál; Trautmann, László; Wieszt, Attila - 2010

psychological and sociological findings such as human motivational theories or trust are fundamental elements of the 21st century …

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The value of vulnerability: The transformative capacity of risky trust

Bruni, Luigino; Tufano, Fabio - 2016

The 'grammar of trust' is one of the most explored loci in behavioural and experimental economics. This experimental … study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky trust may foster a trustee … of risky trust, which generates more trustworthy and reciprocal behaviour in untrustworthy people. …

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Unterschiedliche Einflussfaktoren auf das Vertrauen in Organisationen - Ein Vergleich zweier Anbieter sozialer Dienstleistungen / Different factors influencing organizational trust...

Kretzschmann, Christian; Leistner, Ulrike; Stock, Lothar - In: Arbeit 22 (2013) 1, pp. 60-73

Abstract Since the 1980s the concept of trust within organizations has gained in importance. Nevertheless, factors of … influence which affect the different types of organizational trust are mostly unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this article is … quantitative analysis. Furthermore, the factors that have an impact on the various types of trust will be described by quantitative …

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The value of vulnerability: The transformative capacity of risky trust

Bruni, Luigino; Tufano, Fabio - 2015

The "grammar of trust" is one the most explored loci in game theory and behavioural economics. However, still much … needs to be understood about the nature of trust in non-enforceable, personalised interactions, in markets and within … organizations. This experimental study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky …

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Correlation of trust and work engagement: A modern organizational approach

Nešić, Ana; Veljkovic, Slavica Mitrovic; Meško, Maja; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) Special Issue No. 14, pp. 1283-1300

organizational behaviors. The fundamental issue is determining whether engagement and trust, remain two of the critical factors of an … establish a correlation between trust and work engagement in on 787 respondents from 16 organizations in Serbia. Trust in … between dimensions of trust: benevolence/integrity and competence, with all work engagement dimensions. The strongest …

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Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2013

whether these good guys are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness within …

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