Carlson School of Management

Avner Ben-Ner

Ben-Ner,Avner

Professor
Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies
3-300U CarlSMgmt
612/624-0867
benne001@umn.edu


Professor Avner Ben‐Ner has been a professor in the Carlson School’s department of human resources and industrial relations since 1988. He received his PhD and MA in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

"Reciprocity in a Two-Part Dictator Game" with L. Putterman, F. Kong, D. Magan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004

Economics, Values, and Organization, (ed.), with L. Putterman, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2001 (PB), 2005 (Peking U Press)

"Employee Buyout in a Bargaining Game with Asymmetric Information," with B. Jun, American Economic Review, 1996

"Employee Participation, Ownership, and Productivity: A Theoretical Framework," with D. Jones, Industrial Relations, 1995

"Who Benefits from the Nonprofit Sector? Reforming Law and Public Policy Towards Nonprofit Organizations," Yale Law Journal, 1994

"Basic Issues in Organizations: A Comparative Perspective," with J. Montias and E. Neuberger, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993

"The Shifting Boundaries of the Mixed Economy and the Future of the Nonprofit Sector", Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2002,

"Learning: What and How? An Empirical Study of Adjustments in Workplace Organization Structure", Avner Ben-Ner and Stephanie Lluis, Industrial Relations, January 2011, vol. 50(1):76-108.

"Personality and Altruism in the Dictator Game: Relationship to Giving to Kin, Collaborators, Competitors, and Neutrals". Appendix. Avner Ben-Ner and Amit Kramer, Personality and Individual Differences, 2011

"A Sectoral Comparison of Wage Levels and Wage Inequality in Human Services Industries," Avner Ben-Ner, Darla Flint Paulson and Ting Ren, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2011

"Trusting and Trustworthiness: What Are They, How to Measure Them, and What Affects Them?" Avner Ben-Ner and Freyr Halldorsson, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(1):64-79.

Other Publications

"Trust, Communication and Contracts: An Experiment," with Louis Putterman, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009

"Identity and In-group/Out-group Differentiation in Work and Giving Behaviors: Experimental Evidence, Avner Ben-Ner, Brian McCall, Massoud Stephane and Hua Wang, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2009, 72(1), pp. 153-170.

Spring 2013

HRIR 8141 Organizational Theory Foundations of High-Impact HRIR Sec. 001
HRIR 8141 Organizational Theory Foundations of High-Impact HRIR Sec. 002
HRIR 8820 Seminar: Special Topics in Work and Organizations Research Sec. 001

Fall 2013

HRIR 8001 Business Principles for the HRIR Professional Sec. 001

Spring 2014

HRIR 8141 Organizational Theory Foundations of High-Impact HRIR Sec. 001

Member of Faculty Consultative Committee, University of Minnesota, 2011-2014

Program Chair for Public and Nonprofit Division of Academy of Management, 2011

Affiliated Professor, University of Minnesota Law School

Structure and performance in for-profit, nonprofit and government organizations

Editorial Board of Nonprofit Management and Leadership; Division of Labor and Transaction Costs; Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity

Past President, Association for Comparative Economic Studies

The role of identity, personality, cognitive ability, ethics and values, and of social, religious, and cultural influences on trust and cooperation, behavior and organizational design.

Research Grant, "A Comparative Study of Organizational Structure, Behavior and Performance in For-Profit Firms, Government Organizations, and Nonprofit Organizations", Aspen Institute ($150,000), 2005-2007

Two articles reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, Edward Elgar Publishing (1996, 2004)

Determinants of Trusting and Trustworthiness: Laboratory Experiments?: The Russell Sage Foundation ($84,000; with Louis Putterman)

Human resource management and firm performance

Listed in Who's Who in Economics (Edward Elgar, Third Edition, 1999)

The place of the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors in the new economy

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Education

PhD, 1981
Economics
State Univ. of New York-Stony Brook

MA, 1978
Economics
State Univ. of New York-Stony Brook

BA, 1975
Economics and Philosophy
Ben Gurion Univ.


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