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The task approach is attracting increasing attention and recognition among scholars in economics, sociology and related fields. However, measurement still presents an important challenge to the task approach. This paper studies the comparability of task measures in the commonly used German...
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This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, we argue that mapping, assessing, fostering, developing, and improving the tacit component in all use of skill and knowledge is...
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In two experiments we studied the effects of behavioral models on routine deviation decisions in observers … choice routine (preferring one deck over others). In a subsequent test phase, participants had to adapt to changes in the … payoff structure that required them to deviate from their routine. We found a strong tendency to maintain the routine despite …
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The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
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The Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) has been called as a relatively novel technology-based explanation of … social changes like job and wage polarization. In this paper we investigate the wage inequality between routine and non-routine … actual and perceived level of routine intensity of jobs to classify workers. We adopt semi-parametric decomposition …
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Job polarization simply refers to the decline or disappearance of employment in middle skill occupations. Recent literature focuses on this phenomenon as a source of rising income inequality in countries. The hypothesis is that growth in employment over the last decades has favoured jobs at the...
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, neglecting the rigidity of routines. This paper offers an action-based microfoundation of routine change expanding Feldman and … of routine changes: routinization/expansion, adaptation, problem fixing, and deliberate routine exchange. This … routines to be taken into account more strongly than before, thereby significantly increasing the relevance of routine research. …
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(innovation) with easy to measure activities (routine) is particularly costly, since it will either lead to misallocation of … optimal organizational responses to coordination and control of routine tasks will lead to bureaucratization within the firm …
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The analysis of job tasks has become a field of growing scientific activity in recent years. Information on such tasks has been used to analyze various research questions, especially regarding changes in the overall structure of the economy and their implications for persons and firms. Arguably...
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The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141248