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Are workers motivated by the greater good? : workers care about employers' social causes, but the public sector does not attract particularly motivated employees
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
intrinsic motivation. …
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Incentives for prosocial activities : economic incentives can motivate prosocial behavior, but may shift attention away from valuable altruistic activities
Lacetera, Nicola - 2016
activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features … motivation may not be a concern in many contexts, the substitution of one prosocial activity for another or shifts in activities …
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Do responsible employers attract responsible employees? : the cost of a firm's commitment to CSR may be offset by its appeal to motivated employees who work harder for lower wages
Nyborg, Karine - 2014
Survey and register data indicate that many employees prefer a socially responsible employer and will accept a lower wage to achieve this. Laboratory experiments support the hypothesis that socially responsible groups are more productive than others, partly because they attract cooperative...
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Payment choice, image motivation and contributions to charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Final version: 04 August, 2010
This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...
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Psychological foundations of incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …
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Call to action : intrinsic motives and material interests
Kotsidis, Vasileios; Montoya Zegarra, Javier Alexander - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/92, pp. 1-24
We provide a game-theoretic account of endogenous intrinsic motivation within a principal–agent framework. We explore …. We show that allowing for endogenous intrinsic motivation generates interesting interplays between exogenous economic … incentives and endogenous motivation, including the possibility of crowding out. Our model can be applied in a wide variety of …
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The impact of incentives on prosocial behavior : an experimental investigation with German and Chinese subjects
Yang, Guanzhong - 2017
) incentives could backfire because extrinsic motivation might crowd out intrinsic motivation. Moreover, national differences in … subjects, which served as an intrinsic motivation. The results indicate that with respect to activities with a prosocial …
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Optimal contracting with endogenous project mission
Cassar, Lea - 2014
, i.e. they have heterogeneous unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I derive the optimal mechanism (allocation rule …
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The Solidarity Motive
Engel, Christoph - 2016
For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981770
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Perceived Motives and Reciprocity
Orhun, A. Yesim - 2017
In reciprocal interactions, both genuine kindness and self-interested material gain may motivate socially beneficial actions. The paper presents results from two experiments that distinguish the role of perceived motives in reciprocal decision making from the role of outcomes or perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954733