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Innovation, industry evoluation and employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the linksbetween innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen thelatter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

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Do small firms compete with large firms?

Audretsch, David B.; Prince, Yvonne M.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998

Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms hasalways been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed...

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Innovation, industry evolution and employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

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Social exchange and common agency in organizations

Dur, Robert A. J.; Roelfsema, Hein - 2008

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

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Reciprocity and incentive pay in the workplace

Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Roelfsema, Hein - 2008

We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...

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Gift exchange in the workplace

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Team incentives, task assignment, and performance : a field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...

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