Think Twice Before Going for Incentives: Social Norms and the Principal's Decision on Compensation Contracts

• Main Authors: Cardinaels, Eddy, Yin, Huaxiang
• 其他作者: Nanyang Business School
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2016
• 主題: Social norms; Incentive contract; Information leakage effect; Honesty
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81901; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39741

Principals make decisions on various issues, ranging from contract design to control system implementation. Few studies examine the principal's active role in these decisions. We experimentally investigate this role by studying how a principal's choice of an incentive contract that may dis...