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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …
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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions
Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high...
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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture
Enke, Benjamin - 2017
to enforce cooperation within these different regimes. This paper develops a measure of the tightness of historical … readily support in-group members in need. This cooperation regime is enforced by tribalistic moral values, emotions of … social cooperation systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455182
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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Agrawal, Ajay - 2013
We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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The Missing Middle Managers : Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development
Hjort, Jonas; Malmberg, Hannes; Schoellman, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper shows that large, multi-establishment business enterprises face a high cost of middle management in poor countries and that this cost inhibits the growth of the modern sector. We provide new empirical evidence using a database covering compensation for 300,000 middle managers working...
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Self-Employment Within the Firm
Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...
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Trust in Large Organizations
Porta, Rafael La - 1996
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …
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Intergovernmental Cooperation and Tax Enforcement
Troiano, Ugo - 2017
Improving the efficiency of tax collection is important for development and fairness purposes. I study the Audit Exchange Information Agreements, which are agreements between the states and the U.S. federal government to exchange information about income tax audit plans and techniques, signed...
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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2017
Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
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