improving efficiency. …

with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but … also suggest that the sorting effect of incentives in the previous companies impact cooperation and efficiency after the …

bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …

learn the abilities of agents. Theory suggests high first-period equilibrium effort in the hidden ability treatment but no …

mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …