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learn and potentially improve their relative position in terms of performance. We find that people express a taste for … status. People increase their effort when they are informed about their relative performance, and some individuals pay to … sabotage others' output or to artificially increase their own performance although they are paid a flat wage. Introducing the …
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We apply agency theory to the payroll records of a copper mine that paid a production bonus to teams of workers. As with most incentive pay used by firms, the bonus was simpler in form than the optimal contract that balances incentives, insurance, and free-riding. We explore whether transactions...
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The possibility of measuring and comparing sustainability performance is generally taken for granted in management … purpose of this article is to question this basic assumption by analyzing the comparability of sustainability performance … sustainability performance, drawing attention to the main reasons that make it very difficult if not impossible to establish a …
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This paper investigates the relationship between intangible capabilities and further AMT adoption in 116 small manufacturing firms. Results indicate that skills of blue-collar workers, influences of customers and vendors, and motivations focussed on process improvement and customers are the...
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