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is an intrinsic motivation device. The firm is more efficient than the market when asset specificity and subjective risk … are sufficiently high because it provides balanced incentives, fosters intrinsic motivation, and economizes on risk. An … intrinsic motivation and the agent's rents in exchange for commitment are higher. The exception is when the market approximates …
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). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
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). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
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, analysed both in isolation and combination: (i) monitoring efforts affecting intrinsic motivation, i.e. the firm is either … trusting or controlling, and (ii) remuneration schemes affecting extrinsic motivation, i.e. individual or group rewards. The … werden: (i) Überwachungsmaßnahmen, die sich auf die intrinsische Motivation auswirken, d. h. das Unternehmen ist entweder …
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). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
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We theorize peer awards’ effects on the volume and novelty of creative user-generated content (UGC) produced at online platform communities. We then test our hypotheses via a randomized field experiment on Reddit, wherein we randomly and anonymously assigned Reddit’s Gold Award to 905...
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rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …
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Many organizations nowadays combine profits with a social mission. This paper reveals a new hidden benefit of the mission: its role in facilitating the emergence of efficiency wages. We show that in a standard gift-exchange principals highly underestimate agents’ reciprocity and, thereby,...
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This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their...
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How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....
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