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RCC is pleased to announce this talk by Dr David Pascual-Ezama, Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Professor of Financial Economy and Accounting at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and RCC Fellow in 2011.
This talk deals with the reasons why companies and public entities should be encouraged to advocate future collaborations with academic and research institutions.
The presentation will be divided in two parts, with different objectives: The first one is to show how very simple tasks and certain incentives are sufficient to provoke dishonest behavior among employees. Despite the traditional stereotypes, a study including 1440 subjects from 16 countries (from Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Nordic to Latin and Asiatic countries) suggests that there are no behavioral differences between participants. By relating this idea with altruism we will obtain highly interesting implications.
In recent years, research in behavioral and experimental economics has evidenced the role of incentives, motivation, and deception in workers’ performance. Therefore, in the second part of the talk, we will show how companies’ profitability can benefit from these types of academic research. Improving workers’ performance is one of the main objectives of the public and private sectors, which is why they should expand their relationship with academic and research institutions.