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South African Journal of Business Management, 1999 Compensation plans that incorporate incentive schemes act as a sales force motivator. This study deals with sales force compensation plans from a management perspective, in the South African pharmaceutical industry.
Russell Abratt, Manfred Klein
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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design [PDF]
Empirica, 1989 Most economic activity -- and almost all production -- takes place within the context of organizations: Firms, family, and government. In each, there is a large element of collective decision-making. Our mixed attitudes towards this collective decision-making are reflected by a number of popular aphorisms and jokes: While we may claim that "two heads ...
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing-Based Indoor Localization
IEEE Access, 2018 Wi-Fi-based indoor localization system needs to construct a radio map by site surveys. The process of site surveys is time-consuming and crowdsourcing is one feasible option to tackle this issue. Meanwhile, privacy protection has drawn concerns from both
Wei Li +3 more
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Incentivized Social-Aware Proactive Device Caching With User Preference Prediction
IEEE Access, 2019 In order to offload network traffic, we design a device caching strategy by jointly considering a popularity model, social influence and incentive design in this paper. Firstly, we propose a prediction model by virtue of users' social network information
Jiazhi Ren +6 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 Continual knowledge sharing is the key to improve the competitive ability, operation ability and innovative ability of the organization. Through the comparison of the game theory, knowledge market theory and the principal-agent theory, the principal ...
Wang Ruihua, Lv Yongbo
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Incentive Design and Differential Privacy Based Federated Learning: A Mechanism Design Perspective
IEEE Access, 2020 Due to stricter data management regulations and large size of the training data, distributed learning paradigm such as federated learning (FL) has gained attention recently.
Sungwook Kim
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An Innovation Design Approach for Product Service Systems Based on TRIZ and Function Incentive
Complexity, 2021 Good balance between product and service is the key in the innovative design of product service systems (PSS). In this study, the evolution route of the PSS based on Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch ideal final result was provided. The function
Jie Jiang +5 more
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Computer-aided verification in mechanism design
, 2015 In mechanism design, the gold standard solution concepts are dominant strategy incentive compatibility and Bayesian incentive compatibility. These solution concepts relieve the (possibly unsophisticated) bidders from the need to engage in complicated ...
AV Goldberg +9 more
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Incentive Compatible Active Learning [PDF]
, 2019 We consider active learning under incentive compatibility constraints. The main application of our results is to economic experiments, in which a learner seeks to infer the parameters of a subject's preferences: for example their attitudes towards risk ...
Echenique, Federico, Prasad, Siddharth
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Organizational Design: Culture and Incentives
, 2021 Why do some organizations perform so much better than others, and often persistently so? While the economics literature traditionally emphasizes the importance of incentives, other social sciences focus on the role of organizational culture. Yet very little is known about how an organization's incentive structure and its culture jointly shapes its ...
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