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Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention : A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021
behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Mission, motivation, and the active decision to work for a social cause
Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2019
incentives to an existing workforce. We conducted a natural field experiment with 267 short-time workers and randomly allocated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009033
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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …
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Opting-in to prosocial incentives
Schwartz, Daniel; Keenan, Elizabeth A.; Imas, Alex; … - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 163 (2021), pp. 132-141
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Information, incentives, and attention : a field experiment on the interaction of management controls
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - In: The accounting review : a publication of the American … 98 (2023) 5, pp. 455-479
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Seeking risk or answering smart? : framing in elementary schools
Wagner, Valentin - 2016
This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment … to loss framing. High-performers increase performance in both treatment groups but motivation is significantly crowded …
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The behavioral impact of non-monetary workplace characteristics : laboratory and field experimental evidence
Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2016
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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection
Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019
Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a … benefit as a manager has the strongest incentives to work hard to get promoted. This article shows how the interplay of …
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A Simple Model of Managerial Incentives and Portfolio-Investment Decision
Deng, Binbin - 2017
What is the optimal portfolio allocation when an agent is investing both for a firm and for himself? I address this question by solving a manager's decision problem under a specific executive compensation structure. Specifically, I study how flat wage and stock compensation affect the manager's...
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