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Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participative Management

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Philip Mellizo | March, 2017

We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned to one of the two treatments: one in which the manager … Read More

Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Philip Mellizo | April, 2014

While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial effects, empirical evidence of such effects is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a real‐effort experiment confirming that worker performance is sensitive … Read More