Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is 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...

In this paper, I examine the complementarity of performance measurement, performance pay for production workers, and delegation of decisions to production workers in German manufacturing. I argue and find that combining the three management practices yields higher financial performance than the...