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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision

Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - 2023

? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants …

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations—innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018152

Don't Take 'No' for an Answer : An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Kessler, Judd B. - 2014

in California and show it decreased registration rates. Similarly, a "field in the lab" experiment run on actual organ …

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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions : Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...

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Heads or Tails : The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness

Levitt, Steven D. - 2016

-scale randomized field experiment in which research subjects having difficulty making a decision flipped a coin to help determine their …

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Poverty, Seasonal Scarcity and Exchange Asymmetries

Fehr, Dietmar - 2019

A growing literature associates poverty with biases in decision-making. We investigate this link in a sample of over 3 … constraints increase decision stakes, we also show that trading probabilities increase when the value of the items involved is …

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Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-Making Under Thermal Stress

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

who were randomly assigned to different temperatures in a laboratory. We find that most dimensions of decision-making are …

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The Influence of Probability on Risky Choice : A Parametric Examination

Lattimore, Pamela K. - 2010

The appeal of expected utility theory as a basis for a descriptive model of risky decision making has diminished is a … parametric model of risky decision making. Our results suggest that models which provide for probability transformations are most …

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Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices

Smith, Alec - 2013

neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …

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