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Gender differences in sabotage : the role of uncertainty and beliefs

Dato, Simon; Nieken, Petra - 2018

differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …

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Group contests with complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010

Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...

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Effort maximization in asymmetric n-Person contest games

Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - 2009

This paper provides existence and characterization of the optimal contest success function under the condition that the objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes active participation of a player in equilibrium...

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Identifying leadership skills required in the digital age

Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020

How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...

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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

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Motivation crowding theory : a survey of empirical evidence

Frey, Bruno S.; Jegen, Reto - 2000

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …

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A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs

Stötzer, Lasse Simon; Zimmermann, Florian - 2022

representative survey experiment where we exogenously manipulate the presence of a need for justification of anti-social behavior …

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Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2018

-agent experiment run with a large sample of the Danish working age population, varying the financial consequences associated with the …

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Non-common priors, incentives, and promotions : the role of learning

Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2023

We analyze a repeated principal-agent setting in which the principal cares about the agent's verifiable effort as well as an extra profit that can be generated only if the agent is talented. The agent is overconfident about his talent and updates beliefs using Bayes' rule. An exploitation...

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