Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

This chapter try to highlight some key elements of Chinese thinking described from a cultural and philosophical perspective starting with explaining the background for Chinese philosophy, mainly Confucianism followed by central concepts such as holism (ying/yang) and a discussion of the concept...

Die Hierarchie innerhalb einer Organisation bleibt wichtig, sie wird jedoch immer öfter durch informelle Netzwerke aufgeweicht. Das ist eines der Hauptergebnisse der diesjährigen Studie "Führung im Umbruch". Für die Studie wurden 466 Fach- und Führungskräfte verschiedener Branchen und...

Die ursprünglichen Ziele der regionalen Produktions- und Vermarktungsinitiative "Altreier Kaffee" in Südtirol waren die Wiederbelebung des Anbaus der Altreier Lupine sowie der alten kulturellen Tradition aus den gerösteten Samen der Pflanze ein traditionelles Kaffeesurrogat zuzubereiten....

This paper investigates the traits of the self-employed entrepreneurs in urbanChina, an economy rife with informational and institutional imperfections, underdevelopedfinancial markets, but a growing and important non-state sector. The selfemployedmake on average 20% more than non-entrepreneurs,...

Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...

This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO’s social network, firm identity, andfirm performance. There are two competing theories that predict contradictory outcomes.Following social network theory, one would expect a positive relation between social networksand firm performance,...

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavioris affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where thereare no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensationscheme in...

This paper presents evidence on how farmers’ decisions to adopt a new crop, sunflower,relate to the adoption choices of farmers in their social network of family and friends. Weshow that the relationship is shaped as an inverse-U, suggesting social effects are positivewhen there are few...