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Lying and team incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280688
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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280683
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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation: Longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291374
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How do young innovative companies innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269547
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271239
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Rule of law, institutional quality and information
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2008
The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271882
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Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278385
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Heterogeneous productivity in voluntary public good provision: An experimental analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278412
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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments
Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - 2010
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278578
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Can higher bonuses lead to less effort? Incentive reversal in teams
Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - 2011
this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278589