Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China
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- de Janvry, Alain & He, Guojun & Sadoulet, Elisabeth & Wang, Shaoda & Zhang, Qiong, 2020. "Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt30z1q8nw, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
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Keywords
subjective evaluation; influence activities; civil servants; work performance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- F63 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2022-05-23 (China)
- NEP-EXP-2022-05-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2022-05-23 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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