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A new rationale for not picking low hanging fruits: The separation of ownership and control

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  • Denis Claude

    (LEDi - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dijon [Dijon] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE])

  • Mabel Tidball

    (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

Abstract

Recent attempts at explaining the energy-efficiency gap rely on considerations re-lated to organizational and behavioral/cognitive failures. In this paper, we build on the strategicdelegation literature to advance a complementary explanation. It is shown that strategic marketinteraction may encourage business owners to instill a bias against energy efficiency in manage-rial compensation contracts. Since managers respond to financial incentives, their decisions willreflect this bias, resulting in lack of investment.

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  • Denis Claude & Mabel Tidball, 2021. "A new rationale for not picking low hanging fruits: The separation of ownership and control," Post-Print hal-02959430, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02959430
    DOI: 10.1007/s10666-020-09735-5
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