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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large … across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D employees, we find that startup employees place lower importance on job … security and salary but greater importance on independence and responsibility. Startup employees have higher patent output than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964403
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Motivated Errors
Exley, Christine L - 2019
In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...
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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament
O’Rourke, Margaret - 2015
This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...
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What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993249
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The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes
Hastings, Justine S. - 2012
school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …
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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...
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Motivating Politicians : The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Ferraz, Claudio - 2010
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central...
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Institutions and Contract Enforcement
Falk, Armin - 2010
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions -- dismissal barriers, and bonus pay -- affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
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Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives : Evidence from a Tournament
Freeman, Richard B. - 2009
This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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