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On Social Identity, Subjective Expectations, and the Costs of Control
Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
cognitive, that is, belief-related, and a behavioral, that is, performance-related, dimension. We test these theoretical … in performance is less pronounced for in-group agents than for no-group agents. In the case of a negative sensation … amplies the performance-enhancing effect of a positive control surprise and mitigates the detrimental performance effect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249775
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Spinoffs and Entrepreneurial Talent
Shrivastava, Mili - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Spinoffs firms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483760
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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391901
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The Effect of Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Abilities on Task Performance
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
on performance is stronger under financial incentives as compared to flat rate pay. Subjects with more accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358647
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Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
heterogeneity in performance. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, I show that the effectiveness of high …-powered financial incentives as a stimulator of economic performance can be moderated by cognitive abilities in a causal fashion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090474
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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth
Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the "new growth theory", investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090491
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090523
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090542
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Success in Pharmaceutical Research: The Changing Role of Scale and Scope Economies, Spillovers and Competition
Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of success in the development of new drugs. In specific, it explores the factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R&D competition and technological spillovers as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511329
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Productivity and Heterogeneous Knowledge: Exploring the Relationship in a Sample of Drug Developers
Bottazzi, Giulio; Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511333