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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation

Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order to do so; less is known about the effectiveness of...

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Anti-social behavior in groups

Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018

This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...

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The effects of status mobility and group identity on trust

Suchon, Rémi; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural group identity is generated by school affiliation. Status (expert or agent) is awarded based on relative performance in a math quiz that is ex ante less favorable to the...

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Team incentives and performance : evidence from a retail chain

Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015

We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …

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Black sheep and walls of silence

Mühlheußer, Gerd (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Redesigning teams and incentives in a merger : an experiment with managers and students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Other-regarding preferences and leadership styles

Kocher, Martin; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders … selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other team members. Yet … assigned leaders to use a democratic leadership style by reaching team consensus. Male leaders and leaders influenced by group …

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Everyone is a winner : promoting cooperation through all-can-win intergroup competition

Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2009

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...

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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009

To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...

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Treating equals unequally : incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology

Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009

necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. -- Team incentives ; equity ; production …

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