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Supplemental Material - How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone
No full textSupplemental Material for How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone by Helena Nguyen, Markus Groth, and Anya Johnson in Journal of Service Research</p
Supplemental Material - How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone
No full textSupplemental Material for How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone by Helena Nguyen, Markus Groth, and Anya Johnson in Journal of Service Research</p
Supplemental Material - How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone
No full textSupplemental Material for How Display Rules Influence Turnover in Healthcare Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Negative Affective Tone by Helena Nguyen, Markus Groth, and Anya Johnson in Journal of Service Research</p
sj-pdf-1-jsr-10.1177_10946705211049098 – Supplemental Material for It Went Downhill From There: The Spillover Effect from Previous Customer Mistreatment on Frontline Employees’ Service Delivery
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jsr-10.1177_10946705211049098 for It Went Downhill From There: The Spillover Effect from Previous Customer Mistreatment on Frontline Employees’ Service Delivery by Yumeng Yue, Karyn L. Wang and Markus Groth in Journal of Service Research</p
Towards an agri-environment index for biodiversity conservation payment schemes
No full textThe aim of the paper is to give suggestions about how an agri-environment index can be designed by taking into account specific ecological and economical factors that reflect benefits and costs of biodiversity conservation. Main findings are that the general structure of an agri-environment index is recommended to be a benefits-to-cost ratio, whereby the conservation benefits are accounted for by the following factors which evaluate i) certain criteria that value the ecological quality of a site and point out its significance for biodiversity conservation (Conservation Significance Factor), ii) a criterion that reflects the connectivity of the site which is an important factor for species migration (Connectivity Factor) and iii) criteria that estimate the potential biodiversity outcomes induced by specific management actions (Conservation Management Factor). The Cost Factor reflects the amount of money that the landholder demands as compensation payment for his conservation services. The paper points out that an agri-environment index is a promising approach to encourage and compensate farmers for biodiversity-friendly management actions. Thereby, an improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of European conservation payment schemes is a decisive contribution to biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes.agri-environmental policy, biodiversity benefits index, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, environmental benefits index, rural development
The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
No full textManaged grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is being paid to farming practices that enhance ecosystem services. Therefore developing cost-effective conservation payment schemes is the main challenge facing present European agri-environmental policy. This paper deals with the transferability of a payment scheme that combines a payment-by-results approach with the use of discriminatory-price conservation procurement auctions in order to improve the cost-effectiveness of conservation schemes for grassland plant biodiversity. Hence the design, implementation and results of the adapted case-study payment scheme in the county Steinburg in the northernmost federal state of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) will be focussed. Results concerning the ecological-effectiveness of the payment-by-results approach as well bid-prices and potential cost-effectiveness gains by the use of conservation procurement auctions point out that it was possible to transfer the payment scheme successfully to another region, whereby the adapted case-study even outperforms the original case-study.agri-environmental policy, discriminatory-price auction, ecological services, experimental economics, multi-unit auction, payment-by-results, plant biodiversity, rural development.
Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Emission from Sources beyond the Discovery Horizon
No full textThe IceCube Neutrino Observatory has recently reported strong evidence for
neutrino emission from the Galactic plane. The signal is consistent with model
predictions of diffuse emission from cosmic ray propagation in the interstellar
medium. However, due to IceCube's limited potential of identifying individual
neutrino sources, it is also feasible that unresolved Galactic sources could
contribute to the signal. We investigate the contribution of this quasi-diffuse
emission and show that the observed Galactic diffuse flux at 100 TeV could be
dominated by hard emission of unresolved sources. Particularly interesting
candidate sources are young massive stellar clusters that have been considered
as cosmic-ray PeVatrons. We examine whether this hypothesis can be tested by
the upcoming KM3NeT detector or the planned future facility IceCube-Gen2 with
about five times the sensitivity of IceCube.Comment: Matches version published in Physical Review D 109, 043007 (2024
The Efficiency of German Public Theaters: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach
No full textIn recent years the economic performance of public non-profit sectors such as cultural services has become an interesting economic issue. This is due to the high dependence of cultural institutions on public funding on the one hand and the increasing cost-pressure on public budgets on the other hand. In order to achieve an efficiently, cost-minimizing resource allocation public authorities who decide on the distribution of public budgets need reliable performance indicators. Against this background, this paper analyzes the efficiency of German public theaters for the seasons 1991/1992 to 2005/2006. Using a stochastic frontier analysis approach, we test whether the assumption of cost-minimizing behavior is reliable in this sector. Moreover, several panel data models that differ in their ability to account for unobserved heterogeneity are applied to evaluate the impact of unobserved heterogeneity on the efficiency estimates. The results indicate that the cost-minimizing assumption cannot be maintained. Consequently, an efficiency analysis based on a cost function approach seems inappropriate in the case of German public theaters. Further, we find a considerably unobserved heterogeneity across the theaters, which causes a significant variation in the models’ efficiency estimates. This implies that failing to account for unobserved heterogeneity leads to biased efficiency values. Overall, our results suggest that there is still space for improvement in the employment of resources in the sector.Public theaters, efficiency, stochastic frontier analysis, input distance function, cultural economics
Private ex-ante transaction costs for repeated biodiversity conservation auctions: a case study
No full textThe European Union’s Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced promising changes in rewarding farmers by the implementation of conservation auctions and granting farmers’ transaction costs. The paper therefore deals with the evaluation of private transaction costs within a case study using repeated auctions to reward plant biodiversity. Based on a review of the current literature the paper develops a specific definition of transaction costs as well as a methodology to measure and calculate the farmers’ private transaction costs. The case study enfolds two field experiment auctions and two corresponding surveys. The transaction costs are measured by the use of written questionnaires and will be discussed both as a first reference value of farmers’ transaction costs as well as compared to the individual payments within the case study auctions in order to investigate the real-life performance of this specific application of repeated conservation auctions in biodiversity protection efforts.agri-environmental policy, biodiversity conservation auctions, transaction costs, ecological services, plant biodiversity, experimental economics, EAFRD-Regulation
An empirical examination of repeated auctions for biodiversity conservation contracts
No full textThe European Union’s Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan. This paper therefore deals with the conception and results of two case study auctions for conservation contracts. Results of two field experiments show much differentiated bid prices in the model-region and budgetary cost-effectiveness gains of up to 21% in the first auction and up to 36% in the repeated auction. Besides these promising results, some critical aspects as well as lessons to be learned will also be discussed in this paper to improve the design and performance of upcoming conservation auctions.agri-environmental policy, discriminatory-price auction, multi-unit auction, ecological services, plant biodiversity, experimental economics
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