We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...

It has been argued that guilt aversion (the aversion to violate others’ expectations) and the compliance to descriptive social norms (the aversion to act differently than others in the same situation) are important drivers of human behavior. We show in a formal model that both motives are...

In Wissenschaft und Praxis besteht Konsens über die große Bedeutung des Strategischen Management für die Performance von Unternehmen. Die Methoden der Strategiefindung, die konkreten -inhalte sowie ihre Implementierung weisen dabei viele Freiheitsgrade auf, die von den einzelnen Unternehmen...

Die aktuellen Herausforderungen für Banken sind hinlänglich dokumentiert und diskutiert. Auch die Genossenschaftsbanken sind spürbar von ihnen betroffen. Auf zwei Ebenen begannen sie bereits frühzeitig durch die Entwicklung neuer Strategien zu reagieren. Gemeinsam wurden für den...

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

Using a survey with 57 German firms, we evaluate the level of digitalization of the human resource management (HRM) function and document perceived benefits and barriers of technology adoption from organizational and individual users' perspectives. The results give reason for optimism. Most of...

This study explores the role of trait self-control in individuals' changes in performance and well-being when working from home (WFH). In a three-wave longitudinal study with UK workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that low self-control workers experienced a significant...