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Corporate Social Accounting Disclosure in Thailand: Towards an Appreciation.

Kuasirikun, N.; Gallhofer, S.; Haslam, J.; Sherer, M. - Economics Division, University of Southampton - 2000

Little is known of the actualities or possibilities of corporate social reporting in Thailand. This study aims to move towards an appreciation of this neglected but important area. Our concern is to gain insights into and to critically appraise various dimensions of these annual reports so as to...

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Labor-Market Exposure as a Determinant of Attitudes toward Immigration

Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

from specialization in communication-intensive jobs, in addition to formal education. Second, we explicitly account for the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

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Deception and Incentives: How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

Fehr, Ernst; Ederer, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

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Role Selection and Team Performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING PROGRAMS IN BUSINESS

Ilieva-Koleva, Daniela - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

Mentoring has been used as a useful personal development tool in both business and academia. Many business organizations apply mentoring programs as part of the staff recruiting and staff development programs. Mentoring programs are important not only for business but also to serve as a bridge...

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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON TIME MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

BAL, MÜJGAN; BAL, Mustafa - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

Time as a relative notion being perceived and interpreted differently for everyone, is influenced by the position and conditions as well. The importance of the time usually understood by people when irreversible results occur. People make a habit of work without planning because of the lack of...

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