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Productivity effects of organizational change : microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003 - This version: October 2003
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2012
Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for solving agency problems. To date, we have little understanding of their effect on behavior. Unique panel data from the call center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow...
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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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Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme
Oechsler, Walter A. - 2001
In der aktuellen Flexibilisierungsdebatte werden bestehende rechtliche Regelungen immer wieder als Flexibilisierungshemmnisse angesehen, die eine Anpassung der monetären Anreizsysteme an die aktuellen Anforderungen in den Unternehmen verhindern und im internationalen Vergleich einen...
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …-run and vanishes if the long-run perspective is taken into account. -- Innovation ; Product Innovation ; Process Innovation …
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IT is never too late for changes? : analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the … appropriate IT skills. -- Process innovation ; information technology ; older workers …
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More bits - more bucks? : measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2011
productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity … ; innovation ; broadband Internet …
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440920
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Enterprise software and service innovation : standardization versus customization
Engelstätter, Benjamin; Sarbu, Miruna - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759770
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Technology use, organisational flexibility and innovation : evidence for Germany
Hempell, Thomas (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates to what extent the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) fosters innovation … that ICT use is associated with an increase in both types of flexibility but the implications for innovation activities …
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