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Entrepreneurial couples
Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014
performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357376
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Who gets the reward? : an empirical exploration of bonus pay and task characteristics
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2000
Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339683
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Selection and incentives under time pressure: the importance of framing
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Pupo, Valeria - 2020
structured in two parts. The first part investigates individual characteristics that affect performance under time pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249515
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The effectiveness of incentive schemes in the presence of implicit effort costs
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Radbruch, Jonas - 2017
and cost side can be used separately to shape work performance. In our experiment, subjects work on a real-effort task … options, we explore the role of implicit costs of effort in determining workers' performance. We observe that incentive … contracts and implicit costs interact in a non-trivial manner. Performance reacts significantly to changes in implicit effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612917
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality
Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023
We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we explore if enduring exposure to a competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428113
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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346559
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Moonlighting politicians : motivation matters!
Fedele, Alessandro; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013
In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians can moonlight, i.e., they can work in the market sector while appointed in parliament. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771614
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452045
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082