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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342449
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...
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Work meaningfulness and effort
Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
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The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ
Borghans, Lex; Meijers, Huub; Weel, Bas ter - 2013
This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically...
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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212370
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Peer creativity and academic achievement
Lent, Max van - 2024
on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage … points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars …
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An experiment on creativity in virtual teams
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Klinkenberg, Lisa - 2024
, including creativity. Existing research on creative teams focuses on one-shot or existing teams, overlooking the importance of …
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