stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where …

tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …

themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in … distribution ; motivation ; experiment …

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … the presence of tournament incentives, agents react reciprocally to higher wages, which mitigates the sabotage problem … curbs sabotage due to agreements on flat prize structures and increased output. -- Sabotage ; tournament ; reciprocity …

real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the … experiment, we survey potential participants for their organizational preferences. At the experiment, we randomly assign workers …

(1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage … benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen …

the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …

We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are …