Avner Ben-Ner
· Professor of Supply Chain & OperationsUniversity of Minnesota · Supply Chain and Operations Management
Active 1980–2025
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About
Avner Ben-Ner is a professor in the Department of Work and Organizations at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research focuses on how organizations are designed and how they perform in relation to ownership type, workforce composition, technology, and other variables. He investigates individual and group behavior concerning social preferences and cognition, employing both theoretical and empirical methods. Current projects include studying the impact of new technologies such as robotics and additive manufacturing on employment and skills, as well as examining behavioral aspects of principal-agent relationships through experiments. Additionally, he explores the determinants of social and political polarization. Ben-Ner holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stony Brook University and has an extensive academic background, including positions at Yale University, University of California at Davis, University of Haifa, Tel-Aviv University, and Central European University. He is affiliated with multiple institutions, including the Law School and the Center for the Study of Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and is a Senior Fellow at Rutgers University. His scholarly contributions include numerous publications in prominent journals, co-editing influential books on nonprofit organizations and economics, and serving in leadership roles such as President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies and Program Chair of the Public and…
Selected publications
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly · 2018-07-30 · 23 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThis study considers the role of ownership in consumer choice of service providers in mixed-ownership industries. First, it analyzes theoretically consumer search in the face of severe asymmetric information about important service attributes in a market where nonprofit, for-profit, and local government providers coexist. Second, the article distinguishes between two consumer decision strategies, traditional search for information, and using ownership as a signal of quality. Third, the article a…
REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL, NONPROFIT AND COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics · 2018-02-07 · 17 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT The paper explores the circumstances and conditions that give rise to demand for and supply of social, nonprofit and cooperative enterprises. It examines likely future changes in the economic, social and technological environments and reflects on how these changes may affect demand for and supply of these enterprises. The paper concludes that changes in the environment are like to generate conflicting trends, although a dominant trend may emerge: an increase in the number of social, non…
The effects of feedback on lying behavior: Experimental evidence
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2020-01-27 · 14 citations
articleSenior authorIndustrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society · 2017-09-06 · 10 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingHow does diversity affect performance? We develop a theoretical framework in which diversity of prevention employees (protecting the organization from harm) and of promotion employees (advancing positive outcomes) have different effects on individual and organizational performance. We use data for twenty‐eight soccer teams and 1723 players that played in 6120 games during ten seasons and find that diversity of defensive (prevention) players has a positive effect on player and team performance wh…
The Dark Side of the Nonprofit Sector: Polarization in Contemporary Society
Nonprofit and civil society studies · 2022-01-01 · 9 citations
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Awards & honors
- President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studie…
- Program Chair and Chair of the Public and Nonprofit Division…
- Member, Graduate Faculty in Applied Economics, University of…
- Senior Fellow, Rutgers University School of Management and L…
- Two articles reprinted in The International Library of Criti…
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