Many companies survey employees about their managers yet it is unclear whether this information is, or should be used to evaluate and compensate managers. Data from a high-tech firm reveals that survey measures are associated with employees’ lower attrition, higher promotions, higher salary increases, and higher engagement, but have only a limited relation to subjective performance scores. The ...

A hierarchy is considered in which those agents who perform better advance to higher levels. When agents are heterogeneous and endowed with simple behavioral rules, Harrington (1998a) showed that agents at high levels tend to be rigid, in the sense that their behavior is unresponsive to their environment, relative to agents at low levels. In the current paper, agents are homogeneous but sophist...

We study the economics of Bitcoin transaction fees in a simple static partial equilibrium model with the specificity that the system security is directly linked to the total computational power of miners. We show that any situation with a fixed fee is equivalent to another situation with a limited block size. In both cases, we give the optimal value of the transaction fee or of the block size. ...

We model alternative institutional arrangements for building and managing facilities for provision of public services, including the use of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), by exploring the effects on innovative investment activity by providers. The desirability of bundling the building and management operations is analyzed, and it is considered whether it is optimal to allocate ownership ...

Focus — specialization and speciÞc technology — improves productivity but leads to more dependency and opens a door for power problems. We analyze how organizational design and the choice of technology interact with the allocation of ownership in minimizing the holdup problem in the property rights theory of Grossman-Hart-Moore. We Þnd a novel motive for job rotation: rotation reduces holdup pr...

This paper presents an empirical estimation of a catastrophe model of organizational adoptions of a high technology product when network externalities are present. As such, it integrates work from the economics literature and the catastrophe literature to provide a broader look adoptions issues. Additionally, it is one of the few empirical studies we are aware of that attempt to model organizat...

Contingent ownership structures are prevalent in joint ventures. This paper o ers an explanation based on the investment incentives provided by such an arrangement. We consider a hold-up problem in which two parties make relationshipspeci c investments sequentially in order to generate a joint surplus in the future. In our model, the following ownership structure implements rst best investments...

Birey-Örgüt Uyumunun Örgütsel Vatandaşlık Davranışı Üzerindeki Etkisinde İşe Yabancılaşmanın Aracı Rolü
 
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 Bu araştırma gıda sektörü çalışanlarının, birey-örgüt uyumu, örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışı ve işe yabancılaşma algıları arasındaki ilişkileri incelemektedir. araştırmanın başlıca amacı, çalışanların uyumunun üzerindeki etkisini bu ilişkide yabancılaşmanın aracılık rolün...

ÖRGÜTSEL DESTEK ALGISININ İŞE TUTKUNLUK ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ: CİNSİYETİN DÜZENLEYİCİ ROLÜ ÖZET Bu çalışmanın amacı; işe tutkunluk ile örgütsel destek algısı ilişkisini tespit etmek ve düzeyinin demografik değişkenlere göre farklılık oluşturup oluşturmayacağını test etmektir. Ayrıca araştırmanın diğer bir amacı, algısının üzerindeki etkisinde cinsiyetin düzenleyici rolünü Araştırmada veriler anket ...

PURPOSE A CTEP-sponsored phase II trial was conducted to evaluate safety and clinical activity of combination therapy with CCI-779 (temsirolimus) and bevacizumab in patients with advanced melanoma. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Patients with unresectable stage III to IV melanoma were treated intravenously with temsirolimus 25 mg weekly and bevacizumab 10 mg every 2 weeks. Adverse events were recorded u...