Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across
businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields …

We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with
colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents' effort choices in …

This paper identifies and evaluates rationales for team participation and for the effects of
team composition on productivity using novel data from a garment plant that shifted from …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM)
and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non …

Updated to reflect the latest research evidence, the third edition of Effective Teamwork
provides business managers with the necessary guidance and tools to build and maintain …

According to the American Heritage dictionary, a synergy is “the interaction of two or more
agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual …

Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management
researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand …

This paper argues that changes in workplace organisation, including re‐engineering, teams,
incentive pay and employee voice, have been a significant component of the turnaround in …

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first
truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model …

Decades of research using a wide variety of detailed plant-and firm-level data has provided
strong evidence of persistent performance differences among seemingly similar enterprises …