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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911090
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Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and Hr Policies
Harden, Erika - 2015
ownership, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees' ability and willingness to engage in innovative …, we find that both shared capitalism compensation and high performance work policies contribute to these innovation … outcomes. Owning company stock is the most consistently positive compensation variable in predicting both an innovation culture …
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964403
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117391
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120320
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120991
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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759844
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...
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