The importance of human capital in building and maintaining competitive advantage is undisputed, and ensuring that employees invest in their human capital has thus become of utmost importance to firms. Despite this, management control research has not dedicated much attention to the personnel...

In this paper, I empirically investigate the impact of an organization's reliance on collaborative creativity on the design of incentive systems. In creativity-reliant firms, i.e., firms for which the primary source of value creation lies in the creativity of their core employees, incentive...

I empirically investigate the impact of an organization’s creativity dependency on the design of its incentive system. In firms for which the primary source of value creation is the creativity of core employees, the designs of incentive systems are particularly challenging. The nature of...