Why did you do that? An economic examination of the effect of extrinsic compensation on intrinsic motivation and performance

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 549-566

  James Jr , Harvey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentive compensation; Intrinsic motivation; Motivation crowding out; Principal agent problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644450616     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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