performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … teams' average performance by almost 10 percent. The treatment effect is driven by higher top performance, as this is almost …

This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information …-select. In fact, we demonstrate that RPI especially induces employees with a relatively low performance to voluntarily choose the …

innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type …We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

innovative these firms actually are. This paper investigates firm failure, funding success, and innovation capacity using a hand …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance … is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot be overcome by improving variable pay for performance, as selfish …