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作者：Dahl, Darren W.; Fuchs, Christoph; Schreier, Martin
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：B Companies are increasingly drawing on their user communities to generate promising ideas for new products, which are then marketed as user-designed products to the broader consumer market. We demonstrate that nonparticipating, observing consumers prefer to buy from user-rather than designer-driven firms because of an enhanced identification with the firm that has adopted this user-driven philosophy. Three experimental studies validate a newly proposed social identification account underlying...
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作者：Ruffle, Bradley J.; Shtudiner, Ze'ev
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ariel University
摘要：We investigate the role of physical attractiveness in the hiring process. We sent 5,312 curricula vitae (CVs) in pairs to 2,656 advertised job openings. In each pair, one CV was without a picture, whereas the second, otherwise almost identical CV contained a picture of either an attractive male or female or a plain-looking male or female. Employer callbacks to attractive men are significantly higher than to men with no picture and to plain-looking men, nearly doubling the latter group. Strikin...
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作者：Wu, Yanhui
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：This paper formulates a model in which a firm simultaneously chooses its organizational structure and product position. The firm's production is knowledge intensive, requiring employees to solve problems. A vertical hierarchy, in which workers refer unsolved problems to managers facilitates the acquisition and leveraging of managers' superior knowledge. I show that a larger span of control is complementary to the provision of high-value products. Moreover, this complementarity is sustained whe...
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作者：Bapna, Ravi; Umyarov, Akhmed
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer-to-peer influence has become the holy grail of modern research in online social networks. In these networks, it has been consistently demonstrated that user characteristics and behavior tend to cluster both in space and in time. There are multiple well-known rival mechanisms that compete to be the explanation for this observed clustering. These range from peer influence to homophily to other unobservable external st...
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作者：Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael
作者单位：University of Southampton; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Central European University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and nonprofit sectors as well as in firms that engage in corporate philanthropy or other corporate social responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of a social incentive that takes the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject's choice to a financial incentive. We find that social incentives lead to a 13% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump sum or related to p...
