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Political Science D-index 21 Citations 3,607 86 World Ranking 1263 National Ranking 32

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Awards & Achievements

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Management
  • Social science

Her primary scientific interests are in Pay for performance, Corporate governance, Competitive advantage, Knowledge management and Public relations. Her research in Pay for performance intersects with topics in Public sector, Virtue, Compensation and Law and economics. Her studies deal with areas such as Financial market and New public management as well as Corporate governance.

Her study explores the link between Competitive advantage and topics such as Incentive that cross with problems in Theory of the firm, Dominance, Finance, Corporate law and Shareholder. Margit Osterloh works in the field of Knowledge management, namely Knowledge transfer. Her Knowledge transfer study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Tacit knowledge, Organizational learning, Explicit knowledge, Ask price and Resource-based view.

Her most cited work include:

  • Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms (1438 citations)
  • Pay for Performance in the Public Sector—Benefits and (Hidden) Costs (309 citations)
  • Yes, Managers Should Be Paid Like Bureaucrats: (208 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Corporate governance, Public relations, Pay for performance, Incentive and Knowledge management are her primary areas of study. Her research in Corporate governance intersects with topics in Theory of the firm, Competitive advantage and Accounting. The Public relations study combines topics in areas such as Conventional wisdom, Principal–agent problem and New public management.

Her work deals with themes such as Crowding out, Intrinsic motivation and Public service, which intersect with Pay for performance. Her Incentive research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Competition, Public sector, Public economics and Agency. Margit Osterloh focuses mostly in the field of Knowledge management, narrowing it down to matters related to Business studies and, in some cases, Social psychology.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Corporate governance (40.10%)
  • Public relations (22.84%)
  • Pay for performance (20.30%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2013-2020)?

  • Incentive (17.77%)
  • Competition (10.15%)
  • Corporate governance (40.10%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary scientific interests are in Incentive, Competition, Corporate governance, Positive economics and Labour economics. Her study looks at the intersection of Incentive and topics like Public economics with Employee motivation, Public sector, Originality, Actuarial science and Value. Margit Osterloh has included themes like Performance measurement, Public relations and Competence in her Corporate governance study.

The various areas that she examines in her Public relations study include Control, Clan, Process and Audit. The Positive economics study which covers Behavioral economics that intersects with Social psychology, Intrinsic motivation, Goal theory and Business studies. Her Intrinsic motivation study typically links adjacent topics like Pay for performance.

Between 2013 and 2020, her most popular works were:

  • Learning from Ancient Athens: Demarchy and Corporate Governance (26 citations)
  • How to avoid borrowed plumes in academia (23 citations)
  • Incentives and Performance (20 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Management
  • Social science

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Incentive, Impact factor, Performance management, Corporate governance and Positive economics. Her work carried out in the field of Incentive brings together such families of science as Political economy, Public economics, Decentralization and Negotiation. Her Performance management research includes elements of Performance measurement, Creativity and Knowledge management.

Her research investigates the connection between Corporate governance and topics such as Voting that intersect with issues in Public relations. Her Public relations study incorporates themes from Competition, Competitive advantage, Industrial organization and Local community. Her Positive economics research includes themes of Business studies, Criticism, Performance paradox and Ask price.

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Best Publications

Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms

Margit Osterloh;Bruno S. Frey.
Organization Science (2000)

2976 Citations

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