teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

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 …

Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures …

structured in two parts. The first part investigates individual characteristics that affect performance under time pressure …

manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …

Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures …

reward has a motivating force only if the threat of self-denial of the reward after low performance is credible. We explain …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

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 …