This paper studies how firms’ ownership choices and workers’ intrinsic motivation jointly shape service quality and …-off between cost-efficiency and motivation. The model helps explain the coexistence of heterogeneous ownership structures observed …

The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may … undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 …

-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

from a low-reputation to a high-reputation steady state: Importantly, the effect of wages on motivation depend on the … initial reputation - starting from low-reputation, higher wages crowd in motivation, while starting from high …-reputation, higher wages crowd out motivation. Therefore, a non-monotonic wage path is required to achieve a transition to the low …

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts …