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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005670637
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146
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Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150854
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124480
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géo-économie des richesses en europe (Geo-economy of wealth in europe)
Laperche, Blandine - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2004
humain) dans l’Europe élargie d’aujourd’hui ? Quels sont les résultats des pays européens en matière d’innovation, nerf de la … results of the European countries in terms of innovation, nerve of competitiveness and source of growth ? Short and lung term …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628120
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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504583
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Does Performance Pay De-Motivate, and Does It Matter?
French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001
The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performance-related pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016685
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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used asa motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simplybe a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previouspapers, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016904
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Matchmaking: the Influence of Monitoring Environments on the Effectiveness of Performance Pay Systems
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This study uses cross-section and panel data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to explore contextual influences on the relationship between performance-related pay (PRP) and organizational performance. While it finds strong evidence that the use of PRP can enhance performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017131
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Travail et inégalites sociales en Europe essai d’analyse historique (Labour and social inequalities in europe an historical analysis)
Boutillier, Sophie - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2004
Le travail salarié a été le moteur de l’industrialisation européenne et vice versa. A partir des années 1950, la croissance économique s’accélère, l’Europe est à reconstruire, les entreprises ont besoin de main-d’oeuvre. Le ralentissement de la croissance économique à partir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585690