In the reported experiment different payment schemes are examined on theirincentive effects. Payment based on …

performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …

In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability-the implicit or explicit expectation of … incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability with incentives makes causal attributions of any effects found … problematic. We separate accountability and incentives, and find different effects. Accountability is found to reduce preference …

incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …