The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …

incentives are renewed but fade when they are discontinued. Fixed bonuses lead to smaller effects. Both treatments appear to …

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general … also show how social norms can induce multiplicity of equilibria and how steeper economic incentives can reduce effort …. -- social norms ; incentives ; contracts …