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Race meets bargaining in product development

Karagözoğlu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; Sağlam, Hüseyin … - 2020

We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...

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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Honesty in virtual communication

Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024

Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...

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Environmental policy and innovation : a decade of research

Popp, David - 2019

Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics … examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I … different policy instruments on innovation. I include a discussion of the justifications and evidence for technology …

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Synergizing ventures

Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019

reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …

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Endogenous business cycles and growth

Wälde, Klaus - 2003

Current explanations why a growing economy necessarily goes through booms and recessions predict countercyclical R&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles and growth is presented where the determinants of...

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A productive clash of cultures : injecting economics into leadership research

Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the...

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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....

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The internationalisation of R&D and the knowledge production function

García-Vega, María; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - 2012

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...

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The monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law : incentives for abatement and R&D

Endres, Alfred; Friehe, Tim - 2011

This paper analyzes the output, abatement, and investment decisions made by a monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law. The model applied considers both integrated and end-of-pipe abatement technologies. We find that in the case of fixed technology, in many instances negligence...

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