paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

concept with the motivation and productivity of employees and thus the organization’s efficiency and profitability. Each … intrapreneurship concept is analyzed in this paper. The importance of adequate performance management system that supports … performance. …

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over … the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …

Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team …, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this … individual team productivity which is closely related to eigenvalue centrality; accordingly we refer to it as eigenvalue …

players will average the same number of points per shot. This prediction is tested and found to be consistent with …

efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which can be exploited by local firms to extract relevant information on consumer … exploit the new information and increase the overall efficiency level of the local economy. More specifically, we examine …. The empirical results show that tourism flows enhance regional efficiency and that a positive role is also played by …

quantifying the effect of LMCs on levels of, and differences in, production and efficiency. I find that levels of LMCs are … sometimes positively but other times negatively related to levels of production and efficiency. However, differences in LMCs are … strictly positively associated with differences in production and efficiency, implying that relatively stronger LMCs are …