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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

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Playing "hard to get": an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior

Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014

it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not …

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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013

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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 61 (2017), pp. 213-224

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Legitimacy of control

Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovic, Radovan - 2007

What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort require- ment? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principal- agent model where control...

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Team governance : empowerment or hierarchical control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...