Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
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Keywords
incentives in organizations; inertia; innovation; restructuring;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2010-11-13 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2010-11-13 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-MIC-2010-11-13 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PPM-2010-11-13 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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