Klor, Esteban F.; Kube, Sebastian; Winter, Eyal; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …