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Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration

Langlois, Richard N.; Garzarelli, Giampaolo - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008

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...

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Innovative Behavior and Prosocial Motivation of Russian Civil Servants

Jaekel, Tim - 2017

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 …

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The impact of innovation on the national and regional competitiveness within the European Union

Balalia Iosif, Alina Elena - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 11 (2015) 2, pp. 151-167

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

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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 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...

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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 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...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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...

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Firm-level Innovation Activity, Employee Turnover and HRM Practices – Evidence from Chinese Firms

Eriksson, Tor; Qin, Zhihua; Wang, Wenjing - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014

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’...

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Firm-level innovation activity, employee turnover and HRM practices — Evidence from Chinese firms

Eriksson, Tor; Qin, Zhihua; Wang, Wenjing - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 583-597

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik G. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2006

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...

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