This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...

This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...

In this paper, we report the results of two controlled experiments on relative performance information (RPI). Our main focus lies on investi- gating the behavioral effects of RPI when employees have the autonomy to sort into a specific peer group. In such a decentralized organizational...

Although relative performance feedback can positively influence employee performance, its effect tends to be mixed for employees who underperform compared to their peers. We conducted a field experiment testing whether basing relative performance feedback on inputs, which is relative performance...