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Setting Incentives for Collaboration Among Agricultural Scientists: Application of Principal-Agent Theory to Team Work [PDF]
The USDA is attempting to shift more research funds into competitive grants involving collaboration across disciplines on large projects. This type of research structure raises a host of information and incentive issues.
Wallace E. Huffman
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New 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
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STUDI KOMPARASI PEMIKIRAN ABUL A’LA MAUDUDI DENGAN MUHAMMAD NATSIR TENTANG KONSEP NEGARA ISLAM
Wardah, 2015 This paper discusses Abul A'la Maududi comparative thoughts with Muhammad Natsir about the concept of the Islamic State, both in terms of state ideology and form of government. Despite his two live in different social settings, but his political thinking,
Ainur Ropik
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The Firm as a Community Explaining Asymmetric Behavior and Downward Rigidity of Wages [PDF]
This paper models the firm as a community à la Akerlof (1980) to account for asymmetric behavior, and in particular, downward rigidity of wages. It is shown that, through social interaction among workers in the firm community, wage cuts can give rise to ...
C.C. Yang, Chung-cheng Lin
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Public Versus Private Providers: How Ownership Impacts Quality in Public Service Markets
Public 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
Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adaptive regulations, designed to balance flexibility with accountability, can embed provisions that unintentionally leave room for firms to shirk on their responsibilities by exploiting flexibility. We call these provisions “regulatory gray areas,” and ask: how should we understand (non‐)compliance in adaptive regulatory settings?
Liza Wood +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Grading Exams: 100, 99, 98,...or A, B, C? [PDF]
We introduce grading into games of status. Each player chooses effort, producing a stochastic output or score. Utilities depend on the ranking of all the scores. By clustering scores into grades, the ranking is coarsened, and the incentives to work are
John Geanakoplos, Pradeep Dubey
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
wiley +1 more source
The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance.
David Hagebölling
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"I Don't Get to Feel This Good Very Often:" Virtual Reality Intervention for Veterans Receiving End-of-Life Care. [PDF]
J Palliat MedGately ME +5 more
europepmc +1 more source