The human capital of a firm as manifested by employee knowledge and experience
represents a key resource of a firm's capabilities. Prior empirical studies have found that …

This article analyzes optimal job design in a repeated principal-agent relationship when
there is only one contractible and imperfect performance measure for three tasks whose …

This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas
multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed widely, economic literature …

This paper uses agency theory to analyse the incentives that a donor (principal) and
recipient (agent) face as actors in an accountability regime for the financing of international …

Cluster initiatives are either initiated top down by public administrations or bottom up by
private firms to strengthen cooperation of regional firms and institutions. We compare the …

Economists have often argued that" pay for performance" is the optimal compensation
scheme. However, use of the simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been …

This article analyzes how scientific environment can affect researchers' job design. In a
principal agent framework, we model researchers's choice between substitutable tasks …

The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-
diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We incorporate multitasking into a …

This paper provides a new explanation for the dominance of the low-powered incentive
contract over the high-powered incentive contract using a hybrid model of moral hazard and …

The increasing demand for aviation complex products makes complex product
manufacturers pay more attention to delivery efficiency, and the efficiency and effect of …