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Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2013
This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we …
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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence Among Managers in a German Company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2013
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089005
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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina - 2016
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention : A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021
The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
predictions from the tournament theory to the context of transition economies in which state ownership still plays a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324940
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134643
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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
Huck, Steffen - 2010
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents' desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of team production we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136669
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...
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Differentiation and Performance : An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118767
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Lying and Team Incentives
Conrads, Julian - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
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