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What makes them tick? / Henry Sauermann in Management science, Vol. 56 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) . - pp. 2134-2153 Titre : What makes them tick? : Employee motives and firm innovation Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henry Sauermann, Auteur ; Wesley M. Cohen, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 2134-2153 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Research  and  development  Innovation  Motivation  Motives  Incentives  Creativity Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the pecuniary and nonpecuniary motives of the employees actually working in research and development. Using data on more than 1,700 Ph.D. scientists and engineers, we examine the relationships between individuals' motives (e.g., desire for intellectual challenge, income, or responsibility) and their innovative performance. We find that motives matter, but different motives have very different effects: Motives regarding intellectual challenge, independence, and money have a strong positive relationship with innovative output, whereas motives regarding job security and responsibility tend to have a negative relationship. We also explore possible mechanisms underlying the observed relationships between motives and performance. Although hours worked (quantity of effort) have a strong positive effect on performance, motives appear to affect innovative performance primarily via other dimensions of effort (character of effort). Finally, we find some evidence that the role of motives differs in upstream research versus downstream development. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/12/2134 [article] What makes them tick? : Employee motives and firm innovation [texte imprimé] / Henry Sauermann, Auteur ; Wesley M. Cohen, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 2134-2153. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) . - pp. 2134-2153 Mots-clés : Research  and  development  Innovation  Motivation  Motives  Incentives  Creativity Index. décimale : 658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce Résumé : Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the pecuniary and nonpecuniary motives of the employees actually working in research and development. Using data on more than 1,700 Ph.D. scientists and engineers, we examine the relationships between individuals' motives (e.g., desire for intellectual challenge, income, or responsibility) and their innovative performance. We find that motives matter, but different motives have very different effects: Motives regarding intellectual challenge, independence, and money have a strong positive relationship with innovative output, whereas motives regarding job security and responsibility tend to have a negative relationship. We also explore possible mechanisms underlying the observed relationships between motives and performance. Although hours worked (quantity of effort) have a strong positive effect on performance, motives appear to affect innovative performance primarily via other dimensions of effort (character of effort). Finally, we find some evidence that the role of motives differs in upstream research versus downstream development. DEWEY : 658 ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/12/2134