التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Reputation, Competition, and Lies in Labor Market Recommendations. |
| المؤلفون: |
Câmara, Odilon, Jia, Nan, Raffiee, Joseph |
| المصدر: |
Management Science; Nov2023, Vol. 69 Issue 11, p7022-7043, 22p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
REPUTATION, LABOR market, COMPETITIVE advantage in business, STRATEGIC communication, BUSINESS planning, COMMUNICATION in marketing |
| مستخلص: |
We examine strategic communication in labor market recommendations. Our formal model features two-sided asymmetric information: An adviser has private information about his own preference bias for a focal candidate and a signal of the quality of this candidate, whereas the hiring firm has private information about the quality of an alternative candidate. The adviser can choose whether to recommend his focal candidate to the firm. If he recommends and the firm hires the candidate, then the adviser pays a reputational cost (receives a reputation boost) if the firm later learns that the hire has low quality (high quality). Our main results describe how the equilibrium behavior of advisers (lying choices) and firms (hiring choices) depend on the intricate interplay between preference biases, reputation, lying costs, and the hiring firm's labor market strength (access to alternative candidates with higher quality). We show that the equilibrium features assortative matching: advisers with a higher (lower) reputation choose to lie less (more), and consequently, their candidates are more likely to be hired by firms with strong (weak) access to high-skilled outside candidates. Two equilibrium forces create a "rich get richer" effect. First, advisers choose to lie less to hiring firms with access to better top candidates, further benefiting those firms. Second, advisers with a higher (lower) reputation choose to lie less (more), which increases (decreases) their future reputation, creating a "reputation trap." We discuss the implications of our model for hiring strategy, referral systems, and the ability to accrue and sustain human capital-based competitive advantages. This paper was accepted by Alfonso Gambardella, business strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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