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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

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Benoit Dostie () (IEA, HEC Montréal)
Rajshri Jayaraman

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This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border security along the 49th parallel following 9/11. Our longitudinal difference-in-differences estimates indicate that firms responded to adversity by introducing new or improved processes, but did not change their use of managerial incentives. These results suggest that the threat of bankruptcy may provide impetus for improving efficiency.

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Paper provided by HEC Montréal, Institut d'économie appliquée in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 09-06.

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Date of creation: Sep 2009
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Handle: RePEc:iea:carech:0906

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L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods

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