This paper analyzes a principal-agent-model with a principal, a manager, and a team of workers to investigate the incentive provision and optimal team size in a setting with uncertain productivity and team synergy effects which is typical for innovation environments. Workers are responsible for...

Firms have long used recognition programs to engage and motivate employees. However, minimal research has examined the effectiveness of these programs in actual organizational settings. We predict that the adoption of a team-based recognition program will be associated with significant...

This paper investigates the factors that make teams successful in competitive environments. In collaboration with a medium-sized Latin-American bank, we designed a series of contests among the branches of the bank, in which we varied the prize structure of the tournaments (in some tournaments,...

This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm's profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...

This paper addresses the question, what metrics should be used for performance evaluation and in particular how they should be weighted and combined in the presence of technological interdependencies when the agents exhibit variedly strong developed rivalry. We find that the principal reacts to...

This paper studies the effect of agents’ access to pre-decision information, depending on whether only group performance is rewarded or individual performance is rewarded. Pre-decision information only affects agents’ incentives, which in turn depend on the type of performance evaluation...

In an environment where three-person groups develop a creative solution to an important problem, we examine whether the efficacy of either individual or group-based creativity-contingent incentives depends on whether they take the piece-rate or tournament form. We predict and find that group...

Prior research suggests that providing managers with discretion over team bonus allocation can improve team performance because it enhances the relation between team members’ contributions to team output and their rewards. This study investigates whether task interdependence influences...

Spanish Abstract: En entornos de producción recíprocos las empresas suelen adoptar estructuras de equipos para mejorar su rendimiento. El rendimiento del equipo puede verse mejorado mediante diseños de incentivos que motiven a sus miembros a incrementar el esfuerzo y mejorar los resultados....

This study shifts attention from project-based firms (PBFs) to project network organizations (PNOs) as increasingly important interorganizational contexts of project collaboration. As a result of organizational specialization, PNOs have emerged as generic organizational forms combining the...