Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...

This paper examines whether politically connected firms engage more or less in corporate philanthropy than politically unconnected firms. We argue that political connections have countervailing effects on corporate philanthropy and that the study of publically traded firms (“public firms”)...

Has the value of firms' political connections declined during the course of China's market transition? Some argue that China has experienced a tipping point after which the importance of political connections in conducting business has diminished, whereas others expect the value of political...

We demonstrate that firm leaders’ personal traits formed from their early life experiences affect employees’ behavior and performance at work. In the context of securities companies in China, we show that chairpersons’ adolescent experience as “sent-down youths”(SDYs) during the...