(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives …

tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding …

work individually without monetary incentives and are then assigned to teams of two where compensation is based on team …Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect …

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance … increases with the team's social cohesion, because social cohesion reduces free-riding behavior. In addition, team incentives …

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 …

collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …