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firm’s operations, otherwise known as “voice.” These theories have motivated empirical research on the determinants and …
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This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus … against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …
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particular agents can lead to a third agent being endogenously excluded from the team, even if his own synergy is unchanged. This … result has implications for optimal team composition and firm boundaries. …
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particular agents can lead to a third agent being endogenously excluded from the team, even if his own synergy is unchanged. This … result has implications for optimal team composition and firm boundaries. …
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Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers’ effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely …
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scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We … the incentive scheme had a substantial positive effect in small teams, and a negative response in large teams. We found …
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prior information is diffuse) the incentive efficient solution approaches the team solution that fully internalizes the …
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Consider Holmström.s moral hazard in teams problem when there are n agents, each agent i has a a …
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other in a team. Our results suggest that teams in which the importance of these benefits varies across team members are …In this paper we analyse the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ('black sheep') exhibit … behaviour disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehaviour to the …
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This paper analyzes how all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes can be used to provide effort incentives. We show that wide classes of effort distributions can be implemented as equilibrium outcomes of such games. We also ask how all-pay auctions have to be structured so as to induce high...
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