Agency theory, performance evaluation, and the hypothetical construct of intrinsic motivation
By Alexis H. Kunz, D. Pfaff. 2002
238 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Simon Gächter
- Ernst Fehr
- Meiyu Fang
- B. Gerhart
- Armin Falk
- Klaus M. Schmidt
- James C. Cox
- Bruno S. Frey
In General Decision Sciences
- Ernst Fehr
- Simon Gächter
- Meiyu Fang
- B. Gerhart
- Bruno S. Frey
- Klaus M. Schmidt
- Armin Falk
- Christian Thöni
In Safety Research
- Ernst Fehr
- Simon Gächter
- Meiyu Fang
- B. Gerhart
- Armin Falk
- Ananish Chaudhuri
- Urs Fischbacher
- Louis Putterman
Citations in the corpus
- Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes (2006, unknown): “4Frey and Jegen (2001) and Kunz and Pfa¤ (2002) review the results of the psychological experiments and the psychologists theoretical explanations from an economic perspective.”
- Does pay for performance diminish intrinsic interest? (2012, background): “In conclusion, we suggest that conventional wisdom and widely held beliefs regarding the detrimental effect of PFIP in this area (e.g. Kohn 1993; Kreps 1997; Pfeffer 1998; Frey and Jegen 2001; Kuntz and Pfaff 2002; Prendergast 2008; Ordóñez et al. 2009; Pink 2009) should be revisited.”
- Do Incentive Contracts Crowd out Voluntary Cooperation (2000, background): “3.1 Behavior in the Trust Treatment (TT) Due to the one-shot nature of our game, a rational agent whose preferences are given by (2) will always choose the minimal effort emin because higher effort levels are costly and yield no return for the agent.”
- Motivation, pay satisfaction, and job satisfaction of front‐line employees (2011, background): “The second contribution is the positive association between pay and intrinsic motivation, which suggests that the “crowding-out” literature may have overstated the case that extrinsic rewards have a negative impact on intrinsic motivation (Kunz and Pfaff, 2002).”
- Strategic alignment and middle‐level managers' motivation in a balanced scorecard setting (2006, background): “Rewards from intrinsically motivating tasks include feelings of achievement and self-actualization ( Kunz and Pfaff, 2002”