- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Introduction
- 1. Why Was <i>Rate and Direction</i> So Important?
- Some Features of Research by Economists on Technological Change Foreshadowed by <i>The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity</i>
- The Economics of Inventive Activity over Fifty Years
- 1 Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure, and the Public-Private Portfolio
- 2. The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
- 3. The Effects of the Foreign Fulbright Program on Knowledge Creation in Science and Engineering
- 4 Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
- 5 How Entrepreneurs Affect the Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity
- 6. Diversity and Technological Progress
- 7 Competition and Innovation: Did Arrow Hit the Bull's Eye?
- 8 Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
- 9 The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions
- 10 The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
- The Innovation Fetish among the <i>Economoi</i>: Introduction to the Panel on Innovation Incentives, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- Innovation Process and Policy: What Do We Learn from New Growth Theory?
- 11 The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda
- 12 The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression-Era Productivity Growth in the US Railroad Sector
- 13 Generality, Recombination, and Reuse
- The Art and Science of Innovation Policy: Introduction
- Putting Economic Ideas Back into Innovation Policy
- Why Is It So Difficult to Translate Innovation Economics into Useful and Applicable Policy Prescriptions?
- Can the Nelson-Arrow Paradigm Still Be the Beacon of Innovation Policy?
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
- Chapter:
- (p.483) 10 The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
- Source:
- The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
- Author(s):
Kevin J. Boudreau
Karim R. Lakhani
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter reports on an actual field experiment that tests for the influence of “sorting” on innovator effort. The focus is on the potential heterogeneity among innovators and whether they prefer a more cooperative versus competitive research environment. The focus of the field experiment is a real-world multiday software coding exercise in which participants are able to express a preference for being sorted into a cooperative or competitive environment—that is, incentives in the cooperative environment are team based, while those in the competitive environment are individualized and depend on relative performance. Half of the participants are indeed sorted on the basis of their preferences, while the other half are assigned to the two modes on a random basis.
Keywords: confederacy, software organizations, field experiment
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Introduction
- 1. Why Was <i>Rate and Direction</i> So Important?
- Some Features of Research by Economists on Technological Change Foreshadowed by <i>The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity</i>
- The Economics of Inventive Activity over Fifty Years
- 1 Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure, and the Public-Private Portfolio
- 2. The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
- 3. The Effects of the Foreign Fulbright Program on Knowledge Creation in Science and Engineering
- 4 Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
- 5 How Entrepreneurs Affect the Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity
- 6. Diversity and Technological Progress
- 7 Competition and Innovation: Did Arrow Hit the Bull's Eye?
- 8 Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
- 9 The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions
- 10 The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
- The Innovation Fetish among the <i>Economoi</i>: Introduction to the Panel on Innovation Incentives, Institutions, and Economic Growth
- Innovation Process and Policy: What Do We Learn from New Growth Theory?
- 11 The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda
- 12 The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression-Era Productivity Growth in the US Railroad Sector
- 13 Generality, Recombination, and Reuse
- The Art and Science of Innovation Policy: Introduction
- Putting Economic Ideas Back into Innovation Policy
- Why Is It So Difficult to Translate Innovation Economics into Useful and Applicable Policy Prescriptions?
- Can the Nelson-Arrow Paradigm Still Be the Beacon of Innovation Policy?
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
