Employer-sponsored opportunities for altruism outside the workplace can improve employee engagement and passion within the firm, enhance the firm’s corporate visibility, and improve its recruitment. There is limited understanding of whether and how a firm’s management control system on...

Recent incentive compensation trends suggest that many firms are (a) increasing the frequency with which they reward their employees and (b) providing gift-like unconditional rewards to employees irrespective of performance. This study investigates how reward frequency and reward conditionality...

Employer-sponsored opportunities for altruism outside the workplace can improve employee engagement and passion within the firm, enhance the firm's corporate visibility, and improve its recruitment. There is limited understanding of whether and how a firm's management control system on...

We use two experiments to investigate how incentive scheme and task structure influence creative incubation in a multitask environment where participants perform both creative and simple routine tasks. In our first experiment, where participants are given the discretion to switch between a...

Recent trends in incentive compensation highlight two important features regarding performance-based rewards: (a) firms are offering rewards more frequently, and (b) firms are increasingly using tangible rewards in lieu of cash rewards to motivate employees. This study investigates how reward...

This study investigates when and why intra-year bonus target revisions occur. This is important as intra-year target revisions occur regularly in practice but are not well understood. Specifically, we analyze two potential drivers of intra-year bonus target revisions: reduced managerial...