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We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a … fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
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We build a social structural model of fame, which departs from the atomistic view of prior literature where creativity … likely to become more famous. This effect was not, however, associated with the artist's creativity, which we measured using … than creativity, brokerage networks were associated with cosmopolitan identities—broker's alters were likely to differ more …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests...
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means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a …
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