Arbeitspapier
Team building and hidden costs of control
This paper investigates the interaction of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. We propose a simple principal-agent model with control that incorporates the existence of social groups resulting from common experiences in the past. Our laboratory experiment shows that agents with previous common experiences with their principals (CE agents) perform better than agents without such experiences (NCE agents). However, as soon as actual control exceeds their expectation, CE agents decrease their performance substantially, which has no equivalent for NCE agents. This pronounced decrease in effort when control is perceived as excessive represents a novel channel through which hidden costs of control materialize. Our results have important implications for firms' strategies to motivate employees.
- ISBN
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978-3-86304-065-9
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 66
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Personnel Economics: Labor Management
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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Employee motivation
Principal-agent theory
Experiments
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Riener, Gerhard
Wiederhold, Simon
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
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Düsseldorf
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Riener, Gerhard
- Wiederhold, Simon
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Entstanden
- 2012
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