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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 …

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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 …

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Incentives and Creativity in Groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Contracts and Inequity Aversion

Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2002

Using the concept of Inequity Aversion we derive in a Moral Hazard setting several results which differ from conventional contract theory. Our three key insights are: First, inequity aversion plays a crucial role in the design of optimal contracts. Second, there is a strong tendency towards...

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The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We...

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Developing internationally comparable indicators for the commercialization of publicly-funded research

Arundel, Anthony; Bordoy, Catalina - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

It is a common perception that European public-funded research fails to commercialize their discoveries, in contrast to the perceived success of their American counterparts. This resulted in policies aimed at improving the commercialization of European publicly-funded research, including the...

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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...

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