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Entrepreneurial ventures and the developmental state : lessons from the advanced economies

Lazonick, William - 2008

might achieve similar outcomes. This paper is organized around what I call "the theory of innovative enterprise", a … innovative enterprise provides the essential analytical link between entrepreneurship and development. Section 2 offers, as a … of the developmental state cannot be understood in abstraction from the dynamics of innovative enterprise. It is through …

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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2011

Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...

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Dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay : a field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2013

We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus by outperforming three comparable stores from the control group over the course of four weeks....

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Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools : evidence from one college student and two adult samples

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2012 - Revised version of 2010-22

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The use of typical...

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The effects of prize and noise in elimination tournaments : a natural field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2011

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Dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay : a field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2010

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The effects of prize spread and noise in elimination tournaments : a natural field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2012

We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation : field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz - 2006

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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2010

Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...

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