Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers

Does bribery help or hurt firm growth around the world?

Does bribery help or hurt firm growth? Some suggest that bribery greases the wheel of commerce, while others believe that bribery sands the wheel of growth. We argue that firms endogenously choose their level of bribery according to their environments and that the benefits and costs may differ for different types of bribery. Specifically, small firms are more likely to be forced to engage in br...

Do Organic Results Help or Hurt Sponsored Search Performance?

We study the impact of changes in the position of competing listings in organic search results on the performance of sponsored search advertisements. Using data for several keywords from an online retailer’s ad campaign, we measure the impact of organic competition on both click-through rate and conversion rate of sponsored search ads for these keywords. We find that changes in the position of ...

The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance

In this contribution we examine the interrelation between the distribution of intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wage levels in order to examine for the empirical dominance of positive monetary incentive effects compared to adverse effects due to fairness considerations. We argue that the dispersion of wage increases rather than wa...

Careers and Academic Research Collaborations: an Inductive Process Framework for Understand- Ing Successful Collaborations

Do Workgroup Faultlines Help or Hurt? A Moderated Model of Faultlines, Team Identification, and Group Performance

In this study we examine a moderated model of group faultlines, team identification, and group performance outcomes. We extend research on faultlines by showing how different faultline bases (social category and information-based faultlines) may have differential effects on the performance of groups. In addition to faultline strength (the extent of demographic alignment across members within a ...