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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance inpractice....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486962
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Optimizing Incentive Plan Design : A Case Study
Levenson, Alec R. - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120140
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110857
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 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/10013055234
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Filling the Gap : The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244274