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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP10735
	DP10735 Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
	Eric A Verhoogen; David Atkin; Azam Chaudhry
发表日期	2015-07-26
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the technology for nearly all firms, after 15 months take-up remained puzzlingly low. We hypothesize that an important reason for the lack of adoption is a misalignment of incentives within firms: the key employees (cutters and printers) are typically paid piece rates, with no incentive to reduce waste, and the new technology slows them down, at least initially. Fearing reductions in their effective wage, employees resist adoption in various ways, including by misinforming owners about the value of the technology. To investigate this hypothesis, we implemented a second experiment among the firms that originally received the technology: we offered one cutter and one printer per firm a lump-sum payment, approximately equal to a monthly wage, conditional on them demonstrating competence in using the technology in the presence of the owner. This incentive payment, small from the point of view of the firm, had a significant positive effect on adoption. We interpret the results as supportive of the hypothesis that misalignment of incentives within firms is an important barrier to technology adoption in our setting.
主题	Development Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Labour Economics
关键词	Manufacturing firms Organizations Soccer/football Technology adoption
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp10735
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539566
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eric A Verhoogen,David Atkin,Azam Chaudhry. DP10735 Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan. 2015.