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INFORMATION GATHERING, DELEGATED CONTRACTING AND CORPORATE HIERARCHIES [PDF]

open access: yes
In a typical corporate hierarchy, the manager is delegated the authority to make strategic decisions, and to contract with other employees. We study when such delegation can be optimal.
Chongwoo Choe, In-Uck Park
core  

Gricean metacommunication

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Three main approaches exist for finessing the cognitive demands of Grice's model of communication (a notorious problem): namely, deflationism, modularity, and interpretivism. Here, I consider each in light of human metacommunication, a phenomenon that has been neglected in foundational discussions of Gricean communication.
Ronald J. Planer
wiley   +1 more source

Public Policy, Employment, and Welfare in an Efficiency Wage Model [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops an efficiency wage model to highlight public policy for relieving unemployment. For the purposes of relief, we present unemployment benefits, public employment programs and wage subsidies.
Ken-ichi Hashimoto, Taro Kumagai
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Epistemic authenticity

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Structuring of Digital Monitoring: How Resource‐Rich Employees Are Shielded From More Invasive Levels of Digital Monitoring

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital monitoring represents a new dimension of external control. We focus on variation in the experiences and perceptions of digital monitoring among employees with differing access to resources due to their embeddedness in differentially resource‐rich organizations and jobs.
Anja‐Kristin Abendroth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Versus Private Providers: How Ownership Impacts Quality in Public Service Markets

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments continue to liberalize public services through quasi‐market measures that grant consumers a subsidized choice of public, nonprofit, or for‐profit provider. The assumption is that competition and differences in ownership improve service quality.
Lena Brogaard
wiley   +1 more source

George S. Shirk (1913–1977)

open access: yesNames, 1978
Charles K. Fewkes
doaj   +1 more source

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