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Helping in Teams
Danilov, Anastasia; Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A … simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to … encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards determined by the output of the whole team. This theoretical …
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest...
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The dark side of team incentives: Experimental evidence on advice quality from financial service professionals
Danilov, Anastasia; Biemann, Torsten; Kring, Thorn; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 266-272
In an experiment with professionals from the financial services sector, we investigate the impact of a team incentive …
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Workers' Participation in Wage Setting and Opportunistic Behavior: Evidence from a Gift-Exchange Experiment
Franke, Jörg; Mertins, Vanessa; Gurtoviy, Ruslan - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2014
Our study analyzes the consequences of workers' participation in the wage setting process on effort exertion. The experimental design is based on a modified giftexchange game where the degree of workers’ involvement in the wage setting process is systematically varied among the workers. The...
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Incentives and compensation schemes: An experimental study
Agranov, Marina; Tergiman, Chloe - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 3, pp. 238-247
that study this question have produced mixed results. Using a controlled laboratory experiment, we shed light on the …
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The dark side of team incentives: Experimental evidence on advice quality from financial service professionals
Danilov, Anastasia; Biemann, Torsten; Kring, Thorn; … - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2012
In an experiment with professionals from the financial services sector, we investigate the impact of a team incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842856
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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …
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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086299
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How Competitive are Female Professionals? A Tale of Identity Conflict
Cadsby, C. Bram; Servatka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through psychological priming, may influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may conflict and male professionals for whom they may...
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The Peter Principle: An Experiment
Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2007
experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005112717