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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …

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Innovation in Business Groups

Belenzon, Sharon; Berkovitz, Tomer - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151051

Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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HRM and Workplace Motivation: Incremental and Threshold Effects

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea...

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy

Dawson, J; Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategyon the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theoryperspective on capital structure....

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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level

Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...

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Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990saccording to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studieshave tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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Digital Goods and the New Economy

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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