An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Contract Frame and Discretion in Performance Evaluation on Effort

The design of incentive compensation plans is critical to a company’s success. This study develops and validates a theoretical model to examine how incentive contract framing affects effort. This study uses an experiment to observe the effect of the manipulation of incentive contract frame and the p...

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Main Author: Ewing, Robert
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2016
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/accountancy_etds/6
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=accountancy_etds