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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2008
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Characteristics of Tqm : Evidence from the Rit/Usa Today Quality Cup Competition
Rosett, Joshua G.; Rosett, Richard N. - 2022
This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners …, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The interviews elicited information on the motives for adopting TQM, the … evaluation, compensation, and promotion, the use of teams, reallocation of authority, and the results of the TQM program. We use …
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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Repenning, Nelson - 2010
industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138087
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Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships : Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2013
Moral hazard is endemic to employment relationships and firms often use performance pay and managerial control to address this problem. While performance pay has received much empirical attention, managerial control has not. We analyze data from a managerial-control field experiment in which an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072870
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Management Quality in Public Education : Superintendent Value-Added, Student Outcomes and Mechanisms
Lavy, Victor - 2017
We present evidence about the ways that school superintendents add value in Israel's primary and middle schools. Superintendents are the CEOs of a cluster of schools with powers to affect the quality of schooling, and we extend the approach used in recent literature to measure teachers' value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943187
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055503
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Above a Swamp : A Theory of High-Quality Scientific Production
Kiri, Bralind - 2015
We elaborate a model of the incentives of scientists to perform activities of control and criticism when these activities, just like the production of novel findings, are costly, and we study the strategic interaction between these incentives. We then use the model to assess policies meant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022935
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A New Model of Quality
Krishna, Kala; Winston, Tor - 2021
We develop a new model of quality to capture the idea that even if a customer chooses to purchase a product, it may …
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M.; Leonard, Jonathan S.; Pilarski, Adam M. - 2021
management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally …, simulations from a counterfactual case show that major industrial relations events like strikes, slowdowns, and the TQM program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235276
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235883