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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … improvements in consumer final goods, changes in designs, and other forms of technological creativity. The results indicate that …'s creativity in terms of a “gender difference” rather than a “gender gap” might yield useful analytical insights. A general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964884
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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament
O’Rourke, Margaret - 2015
This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014659
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750025
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Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence
Blasco, Andrea - 2016
We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993841
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Anatomy of a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20–80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060254
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The Peter Principle : Promotions and Declining Productivity
Lazear, Edward P. - 2021
Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...
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Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and Hr Policies
Harden, Erika - 2015
We investigate the relationship of quot;shared capitalistquot; compensation systems - profit/gainsharing, employee ownership, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees' ability and willingness to engage in innovative activity. Using a large dataset with over 25,000 employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750132
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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
Marx, Matt - 2015
When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement - incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034526
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034169
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018152