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The governance of not-for-profit organizations
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480759
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Opportunity Counts : Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives
Boning, Brent - 2001
This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470418
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Productivity and Firm Turnover in Israeli Industry : 1979-1988
Griliches, Zvi - 1992
An analysis of a large panel data set on Israeli industrial firms finds that most of the growth in aggregate productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which will exit in the future have lower productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474920
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Misperceptions, Moral Hazard, and Incentives in Groups
Gaynor, Martin - 1987
Recent work has shown that, in the presence of moral hazard, balanced budget Nash equilibria in groups are not pareto-optimal. This work shows that when agents misperceive the effects of their actions on the joint outcome, there exist a set of sharing rules which balance the budget and lead to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476839
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Finding Leverage Groups
Coleman, David E. - 1977
A brief discussion of recent methods using the Hat Matrix for identifying leverage points, and clustering techniques for finding groups of data points is presented. The problem of identifying leverage groups is addressed, and a heuristic algorithm for identifying both leverage points and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478937
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Production and Learning in Teams
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2018
The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data. The theory is a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market in which production and the accumulation of human capital of an individual are allowed to depend on the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480831
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Founding Teams and Startup Performance
Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous … separation of a founding team member due to premature death has a persistently large, negative, and statistically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482633
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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452978
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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453248
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Team Formation and Performance : Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks
Agha, Leila - 2018
How does team structure affect productivity? We address this question with an application to healthcare by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453376