Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the 'beneficial constraint' arising from stronger employment protection in France, which provides...

Multi-period multi-product regulatory schemes for electricity distributors are presented, based on cost information from a productivity analysis model and an agency theoretical decision model. The proposed schemes are operational and demonstrate considerable advantages compared to the popular...

Este trabajo es un estudio emp¡rico que analiza la relaci¢n din mica entre el cambio estrat‚gico y el cambio organizativo a partir de la investigaci¢n comparada de dos casos de estudio longitudinales. El trabajo muestra que la consecuci¢n de resultados econ¢micos superiores se produce...

Incentive pay systems have undergone major changes in recent decades. This paper investigates use of incentive pay systems in British and French private sector establishments in 2004, focusing on payment-by-results, merit pay, and profit sharing, using British and French workplace surveys: WERS...

Cooperative relations, within and between firms, play important roles in business. How to produce such relations, however, is less well understood. Building on work in evolutionary biology we examine the conditions under which group based incentives result in better performance than individual...

People often need to trade off between the probability and magnitude of the rewards that they could earn for investing effort. The present paper proposes that the conjunction of two simple assumptions (relating effort-induced reward expectations to prospect theory's value function) provides a...

Der Einfluss unterschiedlicher Anreiztypen auf die intrinsische Motivation ist seit Jahren Gegenstand einer heftigen Kontroverse. Der vorliegende Beitrag erweitert diese Diskussion, indem er die Analyse auf zwei weitere Kernelemente von Anreizsystemen, die Ausgestaltung der Bemessungsgrundlage...

Woody biomass in terms of short rotation coppice (SRC) could be a promising alternative for producing biomass to generate renewable energy. Even through, from a single farms point of view, SRC seems to be an interesting land use alternative, farmers do not cultivate SRC. Some studies found out...

Purpose This paper aims to draw on data from a survey research study conducted in Italy that explored the effects of performance-related pay (PRP) among 500 high school teachers. Design/methodology/approach Survey responses studies were conducted. Findings The results are consistent with...

Purpose – The focus of this paper is to highlight the research findings with regard to the performance of client advisors in retail banking by analyzing their revenues and the underlying determinants of those revenues. Retail banking activities are increasingly important to understand in terms...