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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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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690377
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10010945141
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Interoperability and Market Foreclosure In the European Microsoft Case
Kühn, Kai Uwe; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10010702087
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HRM and Workplace Motivation: Incremental and Threshold Effects
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365661
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Human resource management: how much do firms really need?
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
More complete systems of human resource management (HRM) could deliver really extensive gains in employee motivation, according to an analysis of representative data from British workplaces by Michael White and Alex Bryson. Their research explores whether the introduction of 'high-performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721419
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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10008854565
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Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005016782