agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … allowing employees to be guided by such motivations as the desire to compare favorably to others, the aspiration to contribute …

analyze the occurrence of benefits and their effects on employees' satisfaction. Our results provide evidence for economic as … well as psychological explanations. Looking at differences in firms' and employees' characteristics we find that cost … efficiency concerns, the purpose to signal good working conditions and the aim to ease employees' effort costs are evident …

motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …

Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …

Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether … mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …