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I study how limited information and ex-post evaluation by third parties affect how regulators design approval rules for innovations. I consider a model in which the regulator designs approval rules to minimize criticism for approval errors and for imposing a costly approval process on innovating...
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's prospects are ambiguous, the use of extrinsic, high-powered incentives can lead the agent's beliefs about the project's outcome … alleviated for firms in which agents have strong intrinsic incentives to adhere to firms' goals and missions. In equilibrium …, extrinsic and intrinsic incentives are complementary, and firms that face greater uncertainty invest more in fostering intrinsic …
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incentives to affect these choices. It develops a multi-task model where employees makes choices between their assigned standard … tasks, for which the firm has a performance measure and provides incentives, and privately observed innovation opportunities …-powered incentives for standard tasks to encourage more innovation, yet in equilibrium employees undertake too few innovation. The …
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In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...
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Marx did not confine himself to criticising capitalism. He predicted the rise of a new mode of production which would take the place of capitalism and which he indifferently termed socialism or communism. In the light of this, the author thinks that even today those who do not envisage the...
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Type of Paper: Exploratory, descriptive, case study Objectives: In the wake of the global crisis, the role of the financial markets is being questioned and new forms of social innovations focusing on stakeholder governance and cooperation are being experimented. This paper looks into one such...
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In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128230
This paper propose on the basis of empirical study of Indian climate, culture, society and market requirements to create women cooperatives managed by women professionals for growing, processing and marketing plants of medicinal and nutritional value, that take care of individual health and...
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The paper presents the results of an eight-month research program undertaken under the InnoSI project framework, funded under the European Research Program Horizon 2020. We adopt the theoretical framework of social innovation of Westley and Antadze (2010), applying the four-dimensional scheme of...
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A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing...
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