全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21417
来源ID	Working Paper 21417
	Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
	David Atkin; Azam Chaudhry; Shamyla Chaudry; Amit K. Khandelwal; Eric Verhoogen
发表日期	2015-08-03
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 clear net benefits 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 a month's earnings, conditional on 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. The results suggest that misalignment of incentives within firms is an important barrier to technology adoption in our setting.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21417
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579092
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David Atkin,Azam Chaudhry,Shamyla Chaudry,et al. Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan. 2015.