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Competition, Group Identity, andSocial Networks in the Workplace:Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans : Evidence from Korean Panel Data

Kato, Takao - 2010

We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...

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Human Capital and Career Success : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2011

Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...

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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091879

Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity : The Details Matter

Kato, Takao - 2018

Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...

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Peer Effects, Social Networks, and Intergroup Competition in the Workplace

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2009

Using weekly data for defect rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a Chinese textile firm during a 12 months (April 2003 - March 2004) period, we provide some of the first rigorous evidence on the presence and nature of peer effects in the manufacturing workplace. First, a...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007

literature mentioned above, to the best of our knowledge, no papers made a distinction between discrete innovation and continuous …IZA DP No. 3132 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh Takao Kato Hodaka … Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh University of New South Wales …

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