executives, are associated with a higher level of patent quantity and quality, innovation efficiency, and patent importance and …

tournament incentives are positively related to innovative efficiency, as measured by the number of patents and patent citations … positive relation between tournament incentives and innovative efficiency is found to be particularly pronounced during the … period prior to CEO turnovers, especially when the succeeding CEO is promoted from within the firm and when senior managers …

compensation mechanism that firms use to motivate managers to innovate during crises, as an important driver that improves firm … able to innovate by compensating managers with options. We identify exogenous variation in option compensation using …

A common decision that organizations make is to prioritize and allocate resources to managers of competing new product … projects. On successful completion of the projects, organizations often reward their project managers using a standardized … incentive plan; that is, they reward the success of all managers equivalently disregarding the differential amount of resources …

improving efficiency. …