Similar Search Results

The Interaction between Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Capital: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999)

Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper extends existing evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive capital. I focus on … situated in an accounting setting, I show that both financial incentives and task-specific cognitive capital, and especially … stronger under performance-based financial incentives as compared to flat-rate incentives. The interaction effect arises …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090505

Task enjoyment and opportunity costs in the lab - the effect of financial incentives on performance in real effort tasks

Eckartz, Katharina M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884457

How do Incentives affect Creativity?

Eckartz, Katharina; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Schunk, Daniel - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884482

On the Incentive Effects of Uncertainty in Monitoring Agents - A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

When two or more agents compete for a bonus and the agents' productivity in each of several possible occurrences depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of uncertainty in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090471

Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We develop a model in which stronger protection of intellectual property rights has an inverted U-shaped effect on innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial exploration that would otherwise accrue to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090472

The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090508

A Theoretical Framework for Understanding University Inventors and Patenting

Göktepe, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090563

Why and how do scientists commercialize their research? Towards a typology of inventors

Goktepe-Hultan, Devrim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are … behaviours and tend to follow them. However, the fact that university policies and TTOs have provided little incentives for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031997

What do Scientists Want: Money or Fame?

Göktepe, Devrim; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

What makes scientists patent and disclose inventions to employers? Using a new dataset on Max Planck scientists, we explore their motivations to patent and/or disclose inventions. We propose that patenting need not be used for monetary benefits. Scientists value reputation as important use...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032012

The Hidden Costs of Control: An Unsuccessful Replication Study

Ploner, Matteo; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This note reports a replication study of Falk and Kosfeldâ€™s (2006) medium control treatment. In the experimental game, an agent has an endowment of 120 experimental currency units and decides how much to transfer to a principal. For every unit that the agent gives up, the principal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051040