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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
team work if their co-workers do the same. We show that there is no pooling in equilibrium, and that workers self …-select into firms that differ in their incentives as well as their resulting level of team work. Our model can explain why firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316936
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2017
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We contribute to this literature by exploiting linked employer-employee surveys for 2004 and 2011. Using...
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2021
This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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Innovation and Smes Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029129
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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Benistant, Julien - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation : Experimental Evidence
Gall, Thomas - 2016
Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … work individually without monetary incentives and are then assigned to teams of two where compensation is based on team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978121
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto - 2017
We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
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