Human Resources

Pay Transparency Doesn’t Lower Productivity—But Individual Responses Illuminate Workers’ Sense of What’s Fair

When companies go public with salary information, the average productivity of their employees does not decline. But small shifts in work output are highly individualized, and they may reflect workers’ responses to how closely they feel their efforts align with the pay.

Do university entrepreneurship programs promote entrepreneurship?

Recently, many universities have developed programs to promote entrepreneurship. However, relatively little is known about the impacts of such university initiatives. In this article, we examine the two major initiatives…

Avoid, acquiesce or engage? How to manage corruption abroad

Multinational firms face challenges in host countries where corruption is common, due to concerns that they will need to engage in corrupt acts in order to survive. Some respond by…

Entrepreneurial teams’ acquisition of talent

Growing startups face the question of who to hire and how much to compensate the new hires. Simultaneously, prospective new hires ask which startup to join and how much their…

Bennett & Levinthal on Firm Lifecycles, Incentives and Firm Growth

While being innovative can lead to a firm growing quickly, the opposite may also be true. Growing quickly may contribute to a firm’s ability to improve its processes. Employees are…

Mind the gap: Role of gender in entrepreneurial career choice/social influence

Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs than men. We investigate whether working in a startup founded by a woman instead of a man influences individuals’ decision to become an…

On the effects of authority on peer motivation

When managers use their (legitimate) power to take decisions on behalf of their staff, they risk setting back employees and making them detach from the firm. This danger is particularly…

Engineering Serendipity

Managers often try to stimulate innovation by encouraging serendipitous interactions between employees, for example by using office space redesigns, conferences and similar events. Are such interventions effective? This article proposes…

Right on the Money?

We study how the optimal configuration of the overall pay system differs between firms that pursue growth‐oriented and efficiency‐oriented strategies. Our results show that growth‐oriented firms (prospectors) benefit from pay…

Hill, Recendes, Anridge

We articulate how CEOs posses-sing certain psychological, behavioral, and social charac-teristics may unknowingly precipitate competitive attackson their firms. Our explanation integrates insights fromvictimology which explain how individuals are subject tomore…

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