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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
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This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049787
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
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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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Scandinavian, and British models. The role of trust in securing micro and macro flexibility also receives attention, leading to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420762
– 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
: Trust rather than no trust was the default. People are more trusting when the default is full trust than when it is no trust …. We introduce a new game, the distrust game (DTG), where the default is full trust and find that in it, trust levels are … higher than in the Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995) trust game (TG), where the default is no trust. At the same time …
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have hidden costs, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
models. The role of trust in securing micro and macro flexibility also receives attention, suggesting that the polder or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986216