Search Results - subject:"Multi Tasking"

Hidden action, identification, and organization design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010 - This version: November 2010

designs, such as advocacy or specialization, overcome restricted implementability, and formalizes a wide-spread type of multi-tasking …

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The Extent and Nature of Contracting in the Wine Supply-Chain When Moral Hazard is Present

Steiner, Bodo E. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2009

This paper explores an optimal sharing contract between a grape grower and a winery, when a risk-averse grower allocates efforts among multiple activities that differe in measurability, while double-sided moral hazard is assumed to be present. The contract allows for asymmetric quality...

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Multi-Tasking vs. Screening: A Model of Academic Tenure

Kou, Zonglai; Zhou, Min - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper develops a model of academic tenure based on multi-tasking and screening. A professor has two tasks …

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Beyond "Ellison’s Matrix" : new directions in behavioral industrial organization

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 47 (2015) 3, pp. 259-272

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Firms, Markets, and the Work Ethic

Ramalingam, Abhijit; Rauh, Michael - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2008

In this paper, we develop a new theory of the firm where the market is primarily an incentive system whereas the firm is an intrinsic motivation device. The firm is more efficient than the market when asset specificity and subjective risk are sufficiently high because it provides balanced...

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Technological progress, organizational change and the size of the Human Resources Department

Boucekkine, Raouf; Criffo, Patricia; Mattalia, Claudio - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2008

Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the … forms like multi-tasking, the increase in the proportion of workers employed in managerial occupation and the increase in … to multi-tasking raises coordination costs between workers and between tasks. Firms can reduce coordination costs by …

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Waste Generation and Disposal: A Multi-Tasking Approach to Policy Effectiveness

Rinaldi, Dario Biolcati; Nicolli, Francesco - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2014) 2

separate collection and in reducing waste generation, using as a theoretical framework the Multi-tasking model (Holmstrom and …

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Technological Progress, Organizational Change and the Size of the Human Resources Departement

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; Patricia, CRIFO; Claudio, MATTALIA - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007

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Contests with multi-tasking

Clark, Derek; Konrad, Kai A. - 2006

The standard contest model in which participants compete in a single dimension is well understood and documented. Multi-dimension extensions are possible but are liable to increase the complexity of the contest structure, mitigating one of its main advantages: simplicity. In this paper we...

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Performance measure congruity in linear agency models with interactive tasks

Budde, Jörg - 2006

This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency's total surplus within an linear agency framework with multiple tasks. It provides a decomposition of agency costs, leading back to a congruity index previously proposed in the literature. In addition, it...

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