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- June 2006
- Article
Understanding Mechanisms in Organizational Research
By: Peter J. Anderson, Ruth Blatt, Marlys K. Christianson, Adam M. Grant, Christopher Marquis, Eric J. Newman, Scott Sonenshein and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Anderson, Peter J., Ruth Blatt, Marlys K. Christianson, Adam M. Grant, Christopher Marquis, Eric J. Newman, Scott Sonenshein, and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe. "Understanding Mechanisms in Organizational Research." Journal of Management Inquiry 15, no. 2 (June 2006): 102–113.
- Research Summary
The Design of Mechanisms and Institutions
Professor Coughlan's research also investigates the design of public policy and collective choice institutions. His research publications have applied game theory, mechanism design, and laboratory experiments to explore incentives and outcomes under alternative legal,... View Details
- 2023
- Article
A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal
By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
Hickey, Conor, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith, and Myles Allen. "A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal." Frontiers in Climate 4, no. 258 (2023).
- 2019
- Chapter
Pricing Mechanisms in Online Markets
By: Chiara Farronato
Farronato, Chiara. "Pricing Mechanisms in Online Markets." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Living edition, edited by Matias Vernengo, Esteban Perez Caldentey, and Barkley J. Rosser Jr.. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Fall 1978
- Article
Incentive Mechanisms for Priority Queuing Problems
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "Incentive Mechanisms for Priority Queuing Problems." Bell Journal of Economics (Fall 1978): 421–436.
- June 2016
- Article
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Work; Mechanisms And Processes; Stratification; Labor Process; Qualitative Methods (General); Case Method; Field Research; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Gender; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.
- January 1991
- Article
Sorority Rush as a Two-Sided Matching Mechanism
By: S. Mongell and A. E. Roth
Keywords: Groups and Teams
Mongell, S., and A. E. Roth. "Sorority Rush as a Two-Sided Matching Mechanism." American Economic Review 81, no. 3 (January 1991): 441–464.
- 28 Sep 2024
- News
The Fascinating Mechanics of Striking a Deal
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Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
In a principal-agent model with adverse selection, we study the implementation of social choice functions when the agent's message space is a correspondence which depends on this true characteristic. We characterize such correspondence for which the Revelation... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design." Review of Economic Studies 53, no. 3 (July 1986): 447–456.
- March 2006
- Teaching Note
Redesigning Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanisms (TN)
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
- May 2003
- Article
Accountability in Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Accountability in Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs." World Development 31, no. 5 (May 2003): 813–829.
- 2006
- Working Paper
Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
- June 1974 (Revised December 1983)
- Background Note
Note on the Mechanical Writing Instrument Industry
Christensen, C. Roland, and Elisabeth Lyman Rachel. "Note on the Mechanical Writing Instrument Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 374-341, June 1974. (Revised December 1983.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms
By: Michael Luca
Online marketplaces have proliferated over the past decade, creating new markets where none existed. By reducing transaction costs, online marketplaces facilitate transactions that otherwise would not have occurred and enable easier entry of small sellers. One central... View Details
Luca, Michael. "Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22616, September 2016.
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Market Mechanisms for Newborn Health in Nepal
By: Karsten Lunze, Rosie Dawkins, Abeezer Tapia, Sidharth Anand, Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
Lunze, Karsten, Rosie Dawkins, Abeezer Tapia, Sidharth Anand, Michael Chu, and David E. Bloom. "Market Mechanisms for Newborn Health in Nepal." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 17 (December 2017).
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Mechanisms and Significance of Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity
By: Uma R. Karmarkar, Mark T. Najarian and Dean V. Buonomano
Karmarkar, Uma R., Mark T. Najarian, and Dean V. Buonomano. "Mechanisms and Significance of Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity." Biological Cybernetics 87, nos. 5-6 (December 2002): 373–382.
- 10 Dec 2013
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A market-based mechanism to improve capital expenditures
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality
In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
- July 2020
- Article
Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions
This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions." Special Issue on Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility. Advances in Strategic Management 41 (July 2020).
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Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds." Journal of Economic Theory 19, no. 2 (December 1978): 359–375.