Identity and the Economics of Organizational Behavior

项目抽象认同和组织行为经济学这个项目将通过考虑认同概念对经济学的影响，将经济学理论和实践与社会学和心理学的重要发现结合起来。它将更好地理解经济学和人类动机之间的关系，特别是在团体和组织内部。这一视角将增加我们对性别歧视、少数民族贫困、学校学业成就、家庭分工、公司治理的作用和影响以及薪酬激励作用的理解。特别是，它将受托的概念纳入经济学，从而为经济学家提供了关于组织治理的角色和意义的新视角。此外，这项工作表明，组织领导在鼓励工人认同他们的工作和他们的组织方面发挥了重要作用。该项目将从理论上进一步表明，许多服从的非经济动机可以自然地在身份建模中捕捉到。心理学实验表明，即使在没有经济回报的情况下，受试者也出人意料地愿意服从实验者。该项目将在一种新的背景下探索这些发现，即经济型实验室实验。它希望找到与身份相关的服从理由，并确定这种行为可能发生的情况。这种与身份相关的非经济服从动机表明，与身份相关的动机可能在实验室以外的更广泛的背景下发挥作用。这种行为可能对广泛的社会政策非常重要：从对公司治理的正确立场到对少数族裔贫困的适当补救措施。

PROJECT ABSTRACT Identity and the Economics of Organizational Behavior This project will integrate economic theory and practice with significant findings in sociology and psychology by considering the implications of the concept of identity for economics. It will yield a better understanding of the relation between economics and human motivation, especially within groups and organizations. This perspective will increase our understanding of gender discrimination, minority poverty, academic achievement in schools, the division of labor in households, the role and impact of corporate governance, and the role of compensation as incentive. Especially, it incorporates into economics the concept of the fiduciary, thereby giving economists a new perspective on the role and meaning of organizational governance. In addition, this work suggests a major role for organizational leadership in encouraging workers' identification with their jobs and with their organizations. The project will further show theoretically that many of the non-economic motives for obedience can be naturally captured in identity modeling. Psychological experiments have shown that even in the absence of economic reward, subjects are surprisingly willing to obey experimenters. The project will explore such findings in a new context, that of economic-style laboratory experiments. It expects to find identity-related reasons for obedience, and also to establish the circumstances under which such behavior is likely to occur. Such identity-related non-economic motivations for obedience would suggest a likely role of identity-related motivation in broader contexts, outside the laboratory. Such behavior is likely to be of great importance for a wide range of social policy: from the proper stance toward corporate governance to the proper remedies for minority poverty.