Principals make decisions on various issues, ranging from contract design to control system implementation. Few studies examine the principal’s active role in these decisions. We experimentally investigate this role by studying how a principal’s choice for a truth-telling incentive contract,...

Using a lab experiment, we investigate how internal transparency affects the tendency of employees to initiate collusive efforts with colleagues from other departments in an organization. Building on behavioral economics theory, we argue that employees who are treated unkindly by their managers...

We experimentally examine whether ranking employees on a social dimension can help them learn something about their self-concept and can foster better ethical decisions afterwards. We examine this question in the context of popular employee-giving programs, whereby proponents argue that such...

Good relationships between middle-level managers and employees are critical to many companies because they can enhance cooperation and motivate effort from all parties. In this paper, we experimentally examine how organizational interventions from the top of company to motivate employees via...

Finance executives often do not pursue innovations in management accounting that can improve long term profits because these innovations can lead to increases in short term tax liabilities. To focus finance executives on pursuing innovations, common wisdom would suggest shielding their...

Developing novel silicon quantum dots (Si-QDs) on conventional CMOS process is one of the most important technologies in Si quantum computing to realize multi-bit integration with a large scale. In this paper, an analysis model based on master equation and realized by Python code is established...

This study experimentally examines whether task-specific experience acquired by managers influences their reliance on performance-based contracts to motivate employees in a setting in which the employee’s task can spark intrinsic motivation. Building on experiential learning theory, we predict...

Gender discrimination continues to be a problem in organizations. It is therefore important that organizations use performance evaluation methods that ensure equal opportunities for men and women. This paper reports the results of an experiment to investigate whether and, if so, how the gender...

Managers often face the choice between promoting an internal employee and hiring an external candidate. Using an incentivized experiment, we examine managers’ promote/hire decision and employees’ behavior before and after that decision in a setting in which the external candidate has...