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| Ben-Ner, Avner; Kong, Fanmin; Bosley, Stacie A.; Burns, W. Allen; Butler, Richard; Han, Tzu-Shian; Liu, Nien-Chi; Park, Yong-Seung. |
| Most retail food firms adhere to traditional human resources management practices, with employees enjoying little involvement in decision-making and little participation in company financial returns. More than one tenth of non-food firms have innovative human resources systems, with much individual and group involvement in decision-making and financial returns, but only a minuscule proportion of food firms have such systems. At the other end of the spectrum, more than one-fifth of food stores and eating and drinking places (and nearly one-third of food wholesale firms) have traditional systems, as compared to only one-tenth of non-food firms. The tasks and the human resource practices typical of retail food firms are consistent with each other. Core... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14315 |
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| Stephane, Massoud; McCall, Brian P.; Ben-Ner, Avner; Wang, Hua. |
| We show that the distinction between Self and Other, us and them, or in-group and out-group, affects significantly economic and social behavior. In a series of experiments with approximately 200 Midwestern students as our subjects, we found that they favor those who are similar to them on any of a wide range of categories of identity over those who are not like them. Whereas family and kinship are the most powerful source of identity in our sample, all 13 potential sources of identity in our experiments affect behavior. We explored individuals willingness to give money to imaginary people, using a dictator game setup with hypothetical money. Our experiments with hypothetical money generate essentially identical data to our experiments with actual... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12070 |
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