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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation

Ytsma, Erina - 2022

The effects of performance pay in routine, easy to measure tasks are well-documented, but they are much less understood in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in knowledge work in a multitasking model, and estimates their...

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Patenting Public-Funded Research for Technology Transfer: A Conceptual-Empirical Synthesis of US Evidence and Lessons for India

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...

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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...

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The effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on CEO pay for luck

Paligorova, Teodora - 2008

According to the rent-extraction hypothesis, weak corporate governance allows entrenched CEOs to capture the pay-setting process and benefit from events outside of their controlget paid for luck. In this paper, I find that the independence requirement imposed on boards of directors by the...

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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

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Overeducation, Performance Pay and Wages: Evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …

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Overeducation, performance pay and wages: Evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting

Schneider, Cédric; Hussinger, Katrin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the...

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