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We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
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Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …
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We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The …
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' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …
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This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … sourcing FDI, acquisitions from non-leading countries increase internal R&D efforts. -- MNE ; knowledge production function …
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endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …
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When people exchange ideas, both truths and falsehoods can proliferate. We study the role of explanations for the spread of truths and falsehoods in 15 financial decision tasks. Participants record the reasoning behind each of their answers with incentives for accuracy of their listeners’...
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This paper revisits the debate about the appropriate differential equation that governs the evolution of knowledge in … the evolution of knowledge is plausible if it satisfies two asymptotic conditions: Looking forwards, infinite knowledge in … finite time should be excluded, and looking backwards, knowledge should vanish towards the beginning of time (but not before …
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We introduce the word illustration task (WIT), a novel experimental task to quantify performance in an idea generation context. Between treatments, we vary whether or not piece-rate (PR) incentives are implemented and the degree to which these incentives are aligned with the desirable outcome....
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Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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