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and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
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advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
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We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in … Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust …
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- specifically the trust environment - and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
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– specifically the trust environment – and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265299
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...
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companies in Russia and using the difference-in-difference estimator, the study finds a statistically and economically …
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and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762398
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are typically associated with higher demand for...
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