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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
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 …
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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
Brehm, 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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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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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...
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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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The Peter Principle : Promotions and Declining Productivity
Lazear, Edward P. - 2001
Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...
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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization
Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000
We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...
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Wages and the Allocation of Hours and Effort
Bils, Mark - 1999
We examine the impact of wage stickiness when employment has an effort as well as hours dimension. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. We compare this model quantitatively to models with flexible and sticky wages, but no effort margin. Allowing...
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