Showing 1 - 10 of 619
By employing modularity theory, we study the general phenomenon of open-source collaboration, which includes, e.g., collective invention and open science besides open-source software production. We focus on how open-source collaboration coordinates the division of labor. We find that open-source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636507
The motivation of civil servants has a considerable impact on their decision-making and thus the performance of a … with three types of motivation: public service motivation (PSM), power motivation (PM) and security motivation (SM). Civil … from regression analyses demonstrate that prosocial motivation (seven item scale, Cronbach's alpha =0.72), power motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956522
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589684
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597694
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements andmodifications made upon the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861521
This paper examines the relationship between employee turnover, HRM practices and innovation in Chinese firms in five high technology sectors. We estimate hurdle negative binomial models for count data on survey data allowing for analyses of the extensive as well as intensive margins of firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851178
This paper examines the relationship between employee turnover, HRM practices and innovation in Chinese firms in five high technology sectors. We estimate hurdle negative binomial models for count data on survey data allowing for analyses of the extensive as well as intensive margins of firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065779
We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645073