Why do employees take more initiatives to improve their performance after co-developing performance measures? A field study

Why patients do not take their medication.

Why do trees take more risks in the Amazon?

Rowland et al. (2015) published recently in Nature a study suggesting that "death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation". We have reanalyzed they data with the objective of placing them in a more global perspective. Drought is one of the major forces shaping forest ecosystems around the world, but much remains unknown about the mechanisms by which dro...

Initiatives to Improve the Academic Performance of Finance Undergraduate Students – a Case Study

Falling student academic performance, in particular increasing undergraduate finance student fail rates necessitated the implementation of a new ethos of student learning. The approach adopted in this case study comprised a compulsory attendance requirement, specific study incentives and improved student access to academic staff. Students were required to attend 70% of lectures and tutorials. F...

Do mergers improve managerial performance?

Extant studies of mergers and acquisitions have relied on stock price reactions to evaluate the impact of these events. In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Healy et al. (1992) sample over a ten year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual firm-level year-by-year analyses results indicate that the managerial performa...

Do salaries improve worker performance?

a r t i c l e i n f o We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts relative to those who do not. The finding is robust to the introduction of worker f...