Rilke, Rainer Michael; van Pelt, Victor; Lehnen, Sebastian - In: Contemporary Accounting Research 42 (2025) 4, pp. 2494-2522
A significant challenge firms face is providing performance feedback that effectively motivates low‐performing employees. In our field experiment, we examine the impact of an often‐overlooked form of relative performance feedback (RPF) that emphasizes comparing employees based on their...