the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … on 305 small firms shows that not only CEO's and managers', but also non-managerial employees' ideas contribute to …

potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … firms' past patent activity while other signals fail to alter the risk assessment of a firm's main bank. Besides, we confirm … that the risk evaluation is not randomly distributed across bank-firm dyads but depends on industry and bank …

tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk … productivity, but only according to their risk attitudes and self-assessments. The reason for the absence of a selection of the …

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative … managerled firms, expenditures on R&D depend on the control exerted. If capital shares are widely dispersed and managers are thus … only controlled a little by owners, they invest more into R&D. Owner-led firms and managers who are strongly controlled …

Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for …