Whistle-blowers frequently face retaliation after reporting law-breaking activities and end up leaving their employing organization. Our study uses a controlled lab experiment to examine how whistle-blowing affects the chances of future employment when respective employees re-enter the labor...

Recent literature has shown that lying behavior in the laboratory can well be explained by a combination of lying costs and reputation concerns. We extend the literature on lying behavior to strategic interactions. As reciprocal behavior is important in many interactions, we study a theoretical...

An increasing number of workers participate in online labor markets. In contrast to traditional employment relationships within firms, the interaction between online workers and their employers are short and impersonal, which makes motivating online workers more challenging. We present results...

In the last decade, forced ranking systems where employees' bonuses depend on their rank assigned by superiors have become less popular. Whereas the inherently competitive structure of ranking systems provides high effort incentives, it might also increase incentives for misconduct. Previous...

There are plenty of human-centred research questions in production science. So far, the focus of the analysis is skewed towards technical considerations. Decision experiments, however, provide a promising approach to gain insights from a human perspective by using learning factories as...

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...