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balanced scorecard. We give an explanation for both claims in a formal model. The distortion towards operational effort arises …
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We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers allocated bonuses to their employees based on subjective...
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balanced scorecard. We give an explanation for both claims in a formal model. The distortion towards operational effort arises …
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balanced scorecard. We give an explanation for both claims in a formal model. The distortion towards operational effort arises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968331
multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field …
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subordinate then is affected by the outcome of the task and he therefore has strong incentives to contribute to its success. There …
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By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives may reduce an agent … convictions of others, high powered incentives signal that not sticking to agreements is a widespread behavior and may lead to …
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We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated … with lower degrees of absenteeism while this is not the case for individual incentives. …
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interaction. We compare the impact of different forms of monetary incentives with non-monetary incentives provided through direct … support to reduce the sales agents' effort costs. We develop a conceptual formal model hypothesizing that incentives for … intermediaries, (iii) intermediaries with weaker monetary incentives prior to the intervention, and (iv) products where the firm has …
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