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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008
damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791765
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Prize sharing in collective contests
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2010
The characteristics of endogenously determined sharing rules and the group-size paradox are studied in a model of group contest with the following features: (i) The prize has mixed private-public good characteristics. (ii) Groups can differ in marginal cost of effort and their membership size....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697815
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Can competition spoil reciprocity? : a laboratory experiment
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Große, Niels - 2010
This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting subjects play coordination games with clear focal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935235
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Group contests with complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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The rise of individual performance pay
Kvaloy, Ola (contributor); Olsen, Trond E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624013
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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518803
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Intra-group heterogeneity in collective contests
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2013
Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700302
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Cost sharing in collective contests
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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Peer pressure and productivity : the role of observing and being observed
Georganas, Sotiris; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …
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