The effects of relative performance information and framed information systems feedback on performance in a production task

Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-184

  Murthy, Uday S ^a   Schafer, Brad A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Framing of information systems feedback; Incentives; Performer level; Relative performance information feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961148465     PISSN: 08887985     EISSN: 15587959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/jis.2011.25.1.159     Document Type: Article

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