Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...

Ebenezer Scrooge lived to be redeemed. And so we might hope it will be for a business education today that conveys many useful values and practices, but no good. I argue that business education today leaves students unprepared for a life in business because it has no moral center and thus has no...

In this theoretical, empirical and occasionally speculative paper we argue that human interaction is the critical source of intangible value in the intellectual age. This argument is supported with some perceptual evidence on the dimensions of intellectual capital (IC) from the Irish ICT sector....

This Article* considers the diversity-performance nexus among elite American law firms. I present several existing theories that might explain this nexus. I argue that these theories do not entirely explain certain institutional and behavioral realities among these law firms with respect to...

A critique of the neo-classical and, especially, stakeholding conceptions of the corporation in modern society. This essay is a new version of chapter 6 from Charles Blattberg, From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...

La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny's (LLSV) purported demonstration in Law and Finance (1998) of a correlation between the legal origins of a country and its stock market development and ownership dispersion, mediated through the protection of minority shareholders as against...

Much has been written about the current crisis in the global financial system, and many thoughtful analyses have examined the causes and consequences of that crisis. This paper joins those analyses that argue that the crisis reveals flaws in the theoretical underpinnings of capital market...

Auf der Basis der neoinstitutionalistischen Organisationstheorie untersuchen wir mithilfe einer empirischen Analyse der Internetkommunikation von drei DAX30-Unternehmungen die Fragen, wofuer Unternehmungen Verantwortung uebernehmen und wie sie ihre Verantwortungsuebernahme kommunizieren. Wir...

Objectives. To investigate at national level the association between health and the social distress in which the whole employed population is plunged as a consequence of job insecurity. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Switzerland. Subjects. Individuals working full or part time as...