Bonus payments and reference point violations

Management Science

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1496-1513

  Ockenfels, Axel ^a   Sliwka, Dirk ^a,b,c   Werner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonus payments; Job performance; Job satisfaction; Reference points; Transparency

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; TRANSPARENCY;

BONUS PAYMENTS; JOB PERFORMANCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES; REFERENCE POINTS; REFERENCE STANDARD;

JOB SATISFACTION;

EID: 84930664033     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.1949     Document Type: Article

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