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Differentiators of Managerial Preferences for Outsourcing : Experimental Evidence of the Moderating Role of Value Appropriation

Lin, Nidthida - 2015

This study adds to our understanding of outsourcing decision-making by examining the differential effect of potential … cost and non-cost innovation benefits on outsourcing choices made by top managers. In addition, we show that value … and leveraging the capabilities it sources through outsourcing partners - plays a moderating role on the decision to …

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Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

Choudhury, Prithwiraj - 2019

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India's 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab managers aligned with the...

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When does team remuneration work? : an experimental study on interactions between workplace contexts

Bartke, Simon; Gelhaar, Felix - 2018

The extent to which individuals cooperate depends on the context. This study analyzes how interactions of workplace context elements affect cooperation when free-riding is possible. Context consists of a novel team building exercise, varying degrees of complementarity in production, and...

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The causal effect of trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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The causal effect of trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018

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The causal effect of trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018

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Social Preferences in Network Games : Theory and Laboratory Evidence

Zhang, Yang - 2019

affects the payoff of which player. We develop alternative theories that incorporate inequality aversion and welfare … contribute more than those at the periphery. These anomalies suggest that subject behavior is driven mainly by the welfare …

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Chapter 1. Intertemporal choice

Ericson, Keith Marzilli; Laibson, David - 2019

Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose new questions for research. The focus for intertemporal choice research is no longer whether the exponential...

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Sabotage in Tournaments:Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical dataon induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in acontrolled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory:effort and sabotage...

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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2004

Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....

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