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and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence …
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under which delegation changes the scope of peer sanction and thus influences the implicit incentives generated by the … information regarding the effient decision. We show that implicit incentives under delegation are strongest in diverse teams and …
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Precedents can facilitate successful coordination within groups by reducing strategic uncertainty, but they may lead to … coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how … such coordination failure can be mitigated and whether subjects are aware of it. In an initial phase, groups were able to …
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Because work is most often performed in a social context, social incentives are key to understand incentive setting in … firms. We assess the strength of social incentives, which critically depend on the extent of social preferences and social … humans or robots. We find evidence that, despite maintaining monetary incentives intact, humans who work with robots …
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On-the-job leisure is a pervasive feature of the modern workplace. We studied its impact on work performance in a laboratory experiment by either allowing or restricting Internet access. We used a 2×2 experimental design in which subjects completing real-effort work tasks could earn cash...
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results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially increase productivity by facilitating coordination, and that the …
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results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially increase productivity by facilitating coordination, and that the … necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. -- Team incentives ; equity ; production …
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results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially increase productivity by facilitating coordination, and that the … necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. -- team incentives ; equity ; production …
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