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Motivation and sorting in open source software innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745268
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Profits, R&D and Innovation: a Model and a Test
Bogliacino, Francesco; Pianta, Mario - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010
demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520841
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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704737
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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071158
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Direct and indirect links between organizational work-home culture and employee well-being
Beauregard, T. A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The extent to which an organization's culture exhibits support for its employees' efforts to balance work and personal responsibilities has been shown to influence a number of work- and home-related outcomes. This study tests a model with a mix of mediated and moderated relationships to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746508
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Positive employee attitudes: how much human resource management do you need?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We propose a selective view of human resource management (HRM) that is guided by work motivation theory, arguing that one of the means by which firms achieve higher performance is by investing in certain forms of HRM practice that help fulfil intrinsic work values and thereby influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126498
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071162
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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928789
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Survive another day: does uncertain financing affect the composition of investment?
Garicano, Luis; Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746023