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Pourquoi les rémunérations augmentent-elles ?

Deux chercheurs de la Rotman School viennent de publier une étude intéressante sur la rémunération des dirigeants intitulée : « You scratch his back, he scratches mine and I’ll scratch yours:Deception in simultaneous cyclic networks ».

Résumé :

Markets with increasing specializations demand service exchanges among professionals,forming networks of delegations (e.g., A represents B, B represents C, and C represents A). Inthree studies, we explore « unethical favors » arising from such simultaneous cyclic networkswhere everyone decides simultaneously whether to misrepresent key information for theirprincipals. Study 1 and 2 found that participants in such networks were more likely to liethan they would if they worked for themselves. This increased deception may be drivenby the anticipation that their lies will be indirectly reciprocated. Indeed, Study 3 foundthat deception decreased when the chain of delegations was broken (i.e., A represents Band B represents C). Moreover, self-report measures suggested that increased deceptionin simultaneous cyclic network was indeed due to anticipated indirect reciprocity. Thus,although reciprocity fosters trust and cooperation it can also create an interlocked circle ofdeception.

 

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A recent study by two Canadian business schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time. For one, it’s not caused by CEOs explicitly colluding with their peers who sit on their company’s compensation committees. Nor is it solely dictated by objective performance metrics. In the study, titled “You scratch his back, he scratches mine and I’ll scratch yours: Deception in simultaneous cyclic networks,” researchers from the Rotman School of Management and the Ted Rogers School of Management found that inflated pay is actually caused by something they’ve labeled the “indirect reciprocity effect”—an unwritten code that can pervade c-suites.

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Ivan Tchotourian