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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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Strategic microscheduling of movies
Dürr, Niklas S.; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2017
We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716018
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Strategic microscheduling of movies
Dürr, Niklas S.; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876630
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016
incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389
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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - 2009
Motorised individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
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What drives WTP for energy efficiency when moving? : Evidence from a Germany-wide household survey
Kesternich, Martin - 2010
The political discussion on energy efficiency is focusing more and more on the building sector due to its susceptibility to potential market failures like the negative external pollution effects of CO2 emission. Using a discrete choice approach, this paper aims at deriving factors which increase...
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Do environmental benefits matter? : A choice experiment among house owners in Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2010
Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702158
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Accounting for uncertainty in willingness to pay for environmental benefits
Daziano, Ricardo A.; Achtnicht, Martin - 2013
Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to pay for carbon...
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The demand for global and local environmental protection : experimental evidence from climate change mitigation in Beijing
Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; Wang, Ran; … - 2018
In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading...
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