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Value dissonance at work
Delfino, Alexia; Espinosa, Miguel - 2025
is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues affects performance. Using survey and … teammates do not have similar performance consequences. We provide evidence consistent with a decline in both employee … often-overlooked influence of diversity in personal values on organizational performance. …
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Are male bosses bad for women's careers? : evidence from a multinational corporation
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2025
management practices and corporate culture. Analyzing performance and potential ratings, we find that manager gender only matters …
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Curriculum and ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - 2014
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey...
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Corporate philanthropy and productivity : evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
performance) or strength. The response is strong for subjects with low initial productivity (30%), while high … own payment scheme leads to a substantial improvement in performance. Comparing social incentives to an equally costly …
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...
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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...
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Is social responsibility a normal good?
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018
We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...
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Corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance
Goerke, Laszlo - 2018
We theoretically analyse the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance of an oligopolistic firm. The firm maximises a weighted sum of profits and a CSR objective which depends on output and the firm's contribution to public good provision, i.e. tax payments....
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