Why genius leads to adversity: Experimental evidence on the reputational effects of task difficulty choices

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1042-1054

  Katok, Elena ^a   Siemsen, Enno ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral operations; Career concerns; Decentralization; Incentives in R D

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL OPERATIONS; CAREER CONCERN; DECENTRALIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FINANCIAL BENEFITS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE REWARDS; TASK DIFFICULTY;

EXPERIMENTS;

BIOGRAPHIES;

EID: 79959193116     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1331     Document Type: Article

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