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Modeling learning traits and team performance with knowledge application : training and education for engineering work teams
Lin, Chieh-Peng; Lu, Kuan-Chen - In: Journal of engineering and technology management : JET-M 64 (2022), pp. 1-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013363641
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Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Teodoridis, Florenta - 2014
We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139547
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786022
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597694
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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414730
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Team-Specific Capital and Innovation
Jaravel, Xavier - 2017
We establish the importance of team-specific capital in the typical inventor's career. Using administrative tax and patent data for the population of US patent inventors from 1996 to 2012, we find that an inventor's premature death causes a large and long-lasting decline in their co-inventor's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970901
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The Corporate Mentoring Academy – the Innovative Project Implemented for a Group of Listed Companies (Akademia Mentoringu Korporacyjnego – nowatorski projekt wdrożony w grupie spół...
Plewa, Anna - 2016
knowledge and experience among employees (particularly in the intergenerational aspect). The key objective of the programme was … key knowledge workers (the employees with the greatest practice and achievements in the organisation). The programme can … knowledge workers, most often constituting in organisations the age group of 50 or 60 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987952
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Age diversity and innovation : do mixed teams of "old and experienced" and "young and restless" employees foster companies' innovativeness?
Hammermann, Andrea; Niendorf, Matthias; Schmidt, Jörg - 2019
). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …-specific knowledge gained during employment within a company. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984119
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Shared Culture and Technological Innovation : Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams
Fitzgerald, Tristan; Liu, Xiaoding - 2023
We open the black box of corporate innovation production by examining its most important input: the employees tasked … greater knowledge integration challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352302
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030