This article reviews an emerging body of evidence on relational contracts, defined as
informal arrangements sustained by the value of future interactions. We focus on develo** …

In principle, firms in develo** countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days
worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and …

Understanding how differences in management 'best practices' affect organizational
outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of …

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion
of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it …

We evaluate the impact of a training program aimed at improving the relational atmosphere
in the workplace. The program encourages prosocial behavior and the use of professional …

We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We
study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory …

We investigate the causal effect of performance pay and conversations about performance
in 224 stores of a retail chain implementing a field experiment with a 2x2 factorial design. In …

There are myriad organizational anecdotes about middle managers who advance their
careers by ingratiating themselves with their superiors while exploiting and abusing their …

The log transformation of the dependent variable is not innocuous when using a difference-
in-differences (DD) model. With a dependent variable in logs, the DD term captures an …