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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data - the disclosures of author contributions on …
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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458432
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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture
Enke, Benjamin - 2017
to enforce cooperation within these different regimes. This paper develops a measure of the tightness of historical … readily support in-group members in need. This cooperation regime is enforced by tribalistic moral values, emotions of … social cooperation systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455182
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Economics and Reality
Uhlig, Harald - 2010
This paper is a non-technical and somewhat philosophical essay, that seeks to investigate the relationship between economics and reality. More precisely, it asks how reality in the form empirical evidence does or does not influence economic thinking and theory. In particular, which role do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462240
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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Antràs, Pol - 2005
How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467591
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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
Markusen, James R. - 2000
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
Crespi, Gustavo - 2008
This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge flows to firm-level data on TFP growth. Our data measure the information flows often considered important, especially by policy-makers, such as from within the firm and from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464694
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R. - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465841
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466745
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Rethinking Deindustrialization
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016
Manufacturing in high-income countries is on the decline and Denmark is no exception. Manufacturing employment and the number of firms have been shrinking as a share of the total and in absolute levels. This paper uses a rich linked employer-employee dataset to examine this decline from 1994 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456560