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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey; Preston, Anne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This study investigates the professional soccer industry to ask whether the talent of an individual's co-workers helps explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and the professional leagues their members play for are...

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Connective Capital as Social Capital: The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms

Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with … day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within … the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of experts, the worker develops his "connective capital." Firms that value …

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Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives

Boning, Brent; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...

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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.

Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn; Correa, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...

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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills

Bartel, Ann P.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …

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