Do financial incentives increase knowledge sharing in a computer mediated environment? Thirty-six accounting students … assigned to groups with different financial incentives (group, piece-rate, or tournament) searched for errors in accounting … knowledge the students shared with others. Quantitative and qualitative data suggest that the group financial incentives …

We examine whether knowledge sharing can enhance the efficacy of implicit, trust-based incentives. Using a stark … of their identity, making it costly to share, but facilitating greater trust that recipients of this knowledge will …, but more when they can expect future rewards (i.e., with implicit incentives). Importantly, knowledge sharing only …