Knowledge sharing and incentive design in production environments: Theory and evidence

Accounting Review

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1145-1170

  Hwang, Yuhchang ^a   Erkens, David H ^b   Evans III, John H ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Group incentives; Incentive design; Knowledge sharing; Specific knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549087055     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2009.84.4.1145     Document Type: Article

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