The cost of high-powered incentives: Employee gaming in enterprise software sales

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-227

  Larkin, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84897765452     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673371     Document Type: Article

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