for product quality. Panel analysis for the US and a randomized control trial in India suggest that management exerts …

Companies typically control various aspects of their workers' behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers' ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …

modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …