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Words substitute fists: Justifying punishment in a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

Punishees regularly ask for justification. But is justification also effective? To answer this question under … controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does … not benefit from contributions to the public good. Punishment is costly. Along with the punishment decisions the authority …

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Examining the intermediate role of employee abilities, motivation and opportunities to participate in the relationship between HR bundles and employee performance

Beltrán-Martín, Inmaculada; Bou Llusar, Juan Carlos - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 21 (2018) 2, pp. 99-110

three HR bundles (skill-, motivation-, and opportunity-enhancing) on employee AMO, and the bottom-up contribution of these …-enhancing HR bundles increase both employee abilities and motivation; the opportunity-enhancing HR bundle also contributes to … model to analyze the contribution of employees’ abilities, motivation and opportunities (employee AMO) to participate in the …

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2014

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal-at least partly-from an assumed positive intrinsic...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013

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Contextualizing corruption: A cross-disciplinary approach to studying corruption in organizations

Pertiwi, Kanti - In: Administrative Sciences 8 (2018) 2, pp. 1-19

This paper aims to establish how organization and management research, an extensive field that has contributed a great deal to research on corruption, could apply insights from other disciplines in order to advance the understanding of corruption, often considered as a form of unethical behavior...

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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Jiménez, Juan Luis; Albalate, Daniel - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 7 (2018) 2, pp. 106-122

This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related...

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Inequality, power and policy change: How Chile moved towards greater political transparency

Schorr, Bettina - 2020

Policy and legislative mechanisms that enforce transparency and accountability, and place limits on politicians' behaviour, are useful tools for addressing political corruption, which constitutes a problem of particular gravity in Latin America. A number of scandals have recently come to light,...

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The Routledge handbook of smuggling

Gallien, Max (contributor); Weigand, Florian (contributor) - 2022

"The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into 6 parts and spanning over 30 chapters, the volume covers themes such as mobility, borders, violent...

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Love is blind: Partisan alignment and political corruption in Spain

Borrella Mas, Miguel Ángel; Rode, Martin - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 3, pp. 423-451

Ever since the spectacular boom and bust cycle of the Spanish real estate industry, endemic corruption at the local level has become a widely recognized problem in the national public discourse. In an effort to expose an under-explored political determinant, this paper investigates the effect of...

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A human capital based growth model with environment and corruption

Ikazaki, Daisuke - In: Journal of Economic Structures 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

In this paper, we present a simple overlapping-generations model with human capital, pollution, and political corruption to consider problems related to sustainable growth. In many growth models that incorporate the environment, it is assumed that there exists an altruistic government that...

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