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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009
damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909134
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203
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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data
Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007
, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591493
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Interactions between workers and the technology of production : evidence from professional baseball
Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Winter, Eyal (contributor) - 2007
performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are … effects ; team production ; externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561656
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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities … design ; functions ; centralization ; M-form ; hierarchy ; top management team ; information technology ; activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548652
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The diffusion of information technology and the increased propensity of teams to transcend institutional and national borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon G.; … - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310833
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Did cheaper flights change the direction of science?
Catalini, Christian; Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick - 2016
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458087
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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013039
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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R …&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as possible and therefore have an incentive to put together a team with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Altruism and relational incentives in the workplace
Dur, Robert A. J.; Tichem, Jan - 2013
This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The con- tract may contain two types of incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739554