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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
communities. The motivation of the external innovators. Those motivated by extrinsic rewards like money and career may choose markets. Those motivated by View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
took a few years. Early on, her research took place in the lab, which offered a controlled environment that made it possible to nail down causality as she measured intrinsic motivation and creativity. After... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites motivated people to voluntarily... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in research departments of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
intrinsically good and not subject to reevaluation on a case-by-case basis," writes Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine in Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable giving, crowding out View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
perceptions, emotions, and motivation levels—on several dimensions of performance. People perform better when their workday experiences include more positive emotions, stronger intrinsic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
restrictions and differential metadata add little strategic insight. Q: One motivation for using iTunes that you identify is the fast download time provided by Apple—you can enjoy the music you download almost instantly. But as broadband... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
around the different extrinsic and intrinsic motivations underlying each of these party's approach to the movie and, therefore, to the negotiation. The exercise allows exploration of the risks of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
creativity and intrinsic motivation of others. Our research suggests that most managers are not in tune with the inner work lives of their employees; nor do they appreciate how pervasive the effects of inner... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Furthermore, the manager will rely more on persuasion when employee motivation is more important for the execution of the project, when the employee has strong intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the capacity and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Approach Authors:Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding generates View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
were not women themselves—it was in the nature of hierarchies in companies and society. Ely: What you're saying is that the discourse on gender partly motivated you to write the book and to think about things differently. The research on... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely