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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786022
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597694
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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024
Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051728
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399582
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The societal responses to Covid-19 : evidence from the G7 countries
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper provides a new picture of how countries have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the effects of the pandemic in terms of normative foundations for societal wellbeing. Social prosperity depends primarily on the functioning of four domains: the economy, the state, civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514534
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171696
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Teamwork as a self-disciplining device
Fahn, Matthias; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2014
other, a relational contract involving teamwork can help to improve an agent's performance. The mutual promise to work … and teamwork renders no technological benefits. Moreover, we show that even if teamwork does render technological benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465053
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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of leadership is difficult to identify, as in agile and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607636
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Who does the talking here? : the impact of gender composition on team interactions
Hardt, David; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes - 2023
dominate the team conversation quantitatively. Past exposure to gender-mixed teamwork makes females more reluctant to engage in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312541
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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008
Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791765