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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064798
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Gift exchange in a multi-worker firm
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2004
One of the main findings of a large body of gift exchange experiments is that in an incomplete contracts environment workers on average do not shirk and usually provide more than the minimum enforceable effort level. In general, 40 to 60 percent of the workers reward higher wages with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338000
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479746
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389
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Gift Exchange in a Multi-Worker Firm
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2004
One of the main findings of a large body of gift exchange experiments is that in an incomplete contracts environment workers on average do not shirk and usually provide more than the minimum enforceable effort level. In general, 40 to 60 percent of the workers reward higher wages with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028923
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Workers' participation in wage setting and opportnistic behaviour : evidence from a gift-exchange experiment
Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338138
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Managerial Payoff and Gift Exchange in the Field
Englmaier, Florian - 2012
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097970
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Managerial payoff and gift exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2012
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488990
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts … field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …. Consistent with the previous experimental literature, I find that principal-first, gifts do increase agent performance. Unlike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 139 (2017), pp. 26-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852826