Control Aversion in Hierarchies
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- De Chiara, Alessandro & Engl, Florian & Herz, Holger & Manna, Ester, 2022. "Control Aversion in Hierarchies," FSES Working Papers 527, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Freiburg/Fribourg Switzerland.
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Keywords
control aversion; hierarchies; delegation; principal-agent-problem;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2022-07-25 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2022-07-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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