Are you paying your employees to cheat? An experimental investigation

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cadsby, C Bram ^a   Song, Fei ^b   Tapon, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cheating; Compensation; Experiment; Guilt; Misrepresentation; Pay for performance; Piece rate; Target; Tournament

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951983308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2481     Document Type: Article

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