1.
Self Interest, Altruism, Incentives, and Agency Theory
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 1994
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 05 Oct 1994
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
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20,015
2.
Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization
Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 10 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads
5,494
3.
Universal Moral Grammar: Theory, Evidence, and the Future
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2007, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 954398
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 02 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
4,021
4.
Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 446/2015
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 28 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - Department of Finance, London Business School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 446/2015
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 28 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2016
Downloads
3,133
Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance During the Financial Crisis
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10399
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 10 Feb 2015
Downloads
3
Downloads
3,133
5.
Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: A Study of the 'Generative Grammar' Model of Moral Theory Described by John Rawls in 'A Theory of Justice.' (Phd Dissertation, Cornell University, 2000)
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 766464
Number of pages: 388
Posted: 28 Jul 2005
Last Revised: 04 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,130
6.
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper No. 10; CESifo Working Paper Series No. 183
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 11 Jan 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper No. 10; CESifo Working Paper Series No. 183
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 11 Jan 2000
Downloads
2,872
Downloads
2,872
7.
Consumer Demand for the Fair Trade Label: Evidence from a Multi-Store Field Experiment
Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming, Formerly: MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2011-9B
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 04 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 26 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Harvard University and London School of Economics
Downloads
2,211
8.
Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?
IMF Working Paper No. 03/189
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 06 Feb 2006
Working Paper Series
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Duke University - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund - INS
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2,099
9.
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2968, FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 07-9
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 29 Aug 2007
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
There are 2 versions of this paper
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
American Economic Review, Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 544-555, 2009
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 31 Oct 2011
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3,344
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2968, FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 07-9
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 29 Aug 2007
Downloads
2,055
Downloads
2,055
10.
What's Different About Family Businesses?
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 16 Mar 1998
Working Paper Series
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Downloads
2,026
11.
A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-6
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 14 Jul 2006
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Downloads
1,914
12.
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
FEEM Working Paper No. 23.2010
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI) and Princeton University - Department of Economics
There are 3 versions of this paper
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
FEEM Working Paper No. 23.2010
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Mar 2010
Downloads
1,898
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4570
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 01 Dec 2009
Downloads
614
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Economica, Vol. 77, No. 305, pp. 1-19, January 2010
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 28 Dec 2009
Downloads
2
Downloads
1,898
13.
Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 22 Jun 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 22 Jun 2000
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1,871
Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 05 Nov 2001
Downloads
62
Downloads
1,871
14.
Psychological Foundations of Incentives
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 17 Dec 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and University of Bonn - Economic Science Area
There are 2 versions of this paper
Downloads
1,828
15.
Crime, Punishment and the Value of Corporate Social Responsibility
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 06 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and Columbia University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Crime, Punishment and the Value of Corporate Social Responsibility
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 06 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Downloads
1,703
Crime, Punishment and the Halo Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility
NBER Working Paper No. w21215
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 01 Jun 2015
Downloads
70
Downloads
1,703
16.
Law, Otherness, and Human Trafficking
Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 605-672, 2009, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-07
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 19 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 26 Mar 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Georgia State University College of Law
Downloads
1,658
17.
Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION: MORAL COGNITION AND DECISION MAKING, D. Medin, L. Skitka, C. W. Bauman, D. Bartels, eds., Vol. 50, Academic Press, 2009, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1163422
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 23 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 29 Dec 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,641
18.
A Social Contract Account for CSR as Extended Model of Corporate Governance (Part Ii): Compliance, Reputation and Reciprocity
Trento University Economics Working Paper No. 11
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 31 May 2005
Working Paper Series
Department of public and sovra-national law, University of Milan
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1,588
19.
Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 762385, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 762385
Number of pages: 129
Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,550
20.
Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Maastricht University and Maastricht University
There are 3 versions of this paper
Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
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1,493
Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4403
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 02 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 25 Aug 2017
Downloads
352
Why Do Investors Hold Socially Responsible Mutual Funds?
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Netspar Discussion Paper No. 08/2013-043 (revised December 2016)
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 15 Nov 2013
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Downloads
169
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1,493
21.
Fiduciary Rationality and Public Policy: The Theory of Agency and Some Consequences
1973 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. In Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1973
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 11 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 27 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh
Downloads
1,486
22.
A Theory of Reciprocity
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 03 Apr 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Bonn - Economic Science Area and University of Konstanz - Faculty of Economics and Statistics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Downloads
1,463
23.
Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation
Nature Communications (2014) 5:3677
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 23 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University - Human Cooperation Lab, Yale University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Yale School of Management, Harvard College, Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Psychology
Downloads
1,351
24.
Law, Science, and Morality: A Review of Richard Posner's 'the Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory'
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 54, p. 1057, 2002, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 877011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 877011
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 24 Jan 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,328
25.
Open Collaboration for Innovation: Principles and Performance
Levine, S. S., & Prietula, M. J. (2014). Open collaboration for innovation: Principles and performance. Organization Science, 25(5), 1414-1433. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0872
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 23 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 18 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Texas at Dallas and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Downloads
1,311
26.
Moral Grammar and Human Rights: Some Reflections on Cognitive Science and Enlightenment Rationalism
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION, PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS, Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, & Andrew K. Woods, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-124
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,297
27.
Do Incentive Contracts Undermine Voluntary Cooperation?
Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 29 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - Department of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
Downloads
1,296
28.
The Poverty of the Moral Stimulus
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY, THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed., Vol. 1, MIT Press, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 896388
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 19 Apr 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,285
29.
Environmental Morale and Motivation
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 11 May 2006
Working Paper Series
CREMA and University of Basel
Downloads
1,277
30.
Individualism During Crises
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 15 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and University of Virginia
Downloads
1,235
31.
Prospect Theory and Migrant Remittance Decision Making
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 05 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Glasgow - Adam Smith Business School
Downloads
1,235
32.
Altruism in Anonymous Dictator Games
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 16, p. 181, 1996
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 11 Jul 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University and Monash University - Department of Economics
Downloads
1,231
33.
What Should Society Expect from Heirs? A Proposal for a Comprehensive Inheritance Tax
63 Tax Law Review 1 (2009)., NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-42
Number of pages: 113
Posted: 28 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 26 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
Downloads
1,208
34.
Work Motivation, Institutions, and Performance
IEER Working Paper No. 62
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 08 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) and University of Bonn - Economic Science Area
Downloads
1,199
35.
Chomsky and Moral Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (J. McGilvray, ed., 2nd edition), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 09 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,163
36.
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2491
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 12 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Konstanz - Faculty of Economics and Statistics and University of Nottingham
Downloads
1,123
37.
Self-Interest, Homo Islamicus and Some Behavioral Assumptions in Islamic Economics and Finance
International Journal of Excellence in Islamic Banking and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 52-79, January 2011
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 16 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 02 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
1,109
38.
In Praise of Procedure: An Economic and Behavioral Defense of Smith V. Van Gorkom and the Business Judgment Rule
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 25 Nov 2001
Working Paper Series
Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute (deceased)
Downloads
1,104
39.
What is Different About Family Businesses?
IMF Working Paper No. 01/70
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 14 Feb 2006
Working Paper Series
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Downloads
1,096
40.
Is Social Capital Really Capital
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 22 Aug 2001
Working Paper Series
Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics and Michigan State University
Downloads
1,078
41.
Outsourcing and the Globalizing Legal Profession
William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 48, 2006-2007, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 22 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads
1,071
42.
Kiva.org: Crowd-Sourced Microfinance and Cooperation in Group Lending
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 26 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Stanford University
Downloads
1,059
43.
Moral Cognition and Computational Theory
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MORALITY, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed., Vol. 3, MIT Press, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1029511
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,043
44.
Review of Patricia S. Churchland, 'Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality'
Ethics, Vol. 123, No. 2, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-007
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 29 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
1,029
45.
Financing from Family and Friends
NYU Stern Working Paper FIN-12-007, IFN Working Paper No. 933, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 19 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business and Stanford University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Financing from Family and Friends
NYU Stern Working Paper FIN-12-007, IFN Working Paper No. 933, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 19 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Sep 2015
Downloads
1,018
Financing from Family and Friends
NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31577
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 30 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2014
Downloads
144
Downloads
1,018
46.
The Ethics of Management Control Systems
IESE Business School Working Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra - IESE Business School and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads
1,003
47.
Promises and Partnership
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 09 Apr 2003
Working Paper Series
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics and University of Arizona - Department of Economics
Downloads
979
48.
Emotion, Neuroscience, and Law: A Comment on Darwin and Greene
Emotion Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-26
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 14 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
977
49.
The Theory of Agency: A Framework
In: Barry M. Mitnick, The Theory of Agency (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 11 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh
Downloads
967
50.
The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1038, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 130
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 07 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 30 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Trade Commission
There are 3 versions of this paper
The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1038, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 130
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 07 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 30 Jul 2015
Downloads
962
The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
NBER Working Paper No. w20047
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 14 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2021
Downloads
28
The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9941
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 02 Jun 2014
Downloads
962
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