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direction of firms' innovative effort and performance, including firms' profit incentives. Innovation at the firm level, however …, should also depend heavily on the nature of the pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives driving the efforts of those … incentives affect their innovative effort and performance?3. How do individuals' motives and incentives differ between …
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that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for … company, gave financial incentives to employees based on short-term profits, which motivated management to perform cheaper and …-term success of their company. I have seen incentives for delivering a project on time influence project managers and developers to …
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Distributed innovation processes are considered as a new option to handle both the complexity and the speed in which new products and services need to be prepared. Indeed most research on innovation processes was focused on multinational companies with an intra-organisational perspective. The...
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Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Business Process Management Journal, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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"Good work" is interpreted from an employer's and a worker's viewpoint. An economic experiment on the existence of intrinsic work motivation in a labor market setting is conducted. A theoretical model analyzes worker selection under exogenous unobservable intrinsic motivation and endogenous...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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Effective Human Resource Development (HRD) has long been recognised as a critical element in overall organisational strategy, and in turn is important to the ongoing sustainability of organisations. In this paper, the importance of effective HRD strategies and interventions are considered,...
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Although IPv6 has been the next generation Internet protocol for nearly 15 years, new evidences indicate that transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is about to become a more pressing issue. This paper attempts to quantify if and how such a transition may unfold. The focus is on ``connectivity...
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value and by providing external incentives to peers to share. With regard to the latter finding, we show that without … external incentives, the level of free-riding in peer-to-peer networks will be higher than the socially optimal level, but that …
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