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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316936
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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834578
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Team Incentives : Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111669
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071741
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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment : Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector
Clayton, Tony - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we … could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764658
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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021957
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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul - 2020
's empowerment when structural causes of disempowerment, external to the household, are present and significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842049
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The City as a Self-Help Book : The Psychology of Urban Promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo - 2017
Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958049
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Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks : Evidence from Nicaragua
Molina Millán, Teresa - 2015
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012019
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Musonera, Abdou - 2016
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … spouses. Variables of sources of empowerment such as education and media exposure were found to have a net positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984863