Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krueger, Miriam; Zubanov, Nick

Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

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2017

Authors

Friebel, Guido

Heinz, Matthias

Krueger, Miriam

Zubanov, Nick

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Journal article

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Published

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American Economic Review ; 107 (2017), 8. - pp. 2168-2203. - ISSN 0002-8282. - eISSN 1944-7981

Abstract

In a field experiment with a retail chain (1,300 employees, 193 shops), randomly selected sales teams received a bonus. The bonus increases both sales and number of customers dealt with by 3 percent. Each dollar spent on the bonus generates $3.80 in sales, and $2.10 in profit. Wages increase by 2.2 percent while inequality rises only moderately. The analysis suggests effort complementarities to be important, and the effectiveness of peer pressure in overcoming free-riding to be limited. After rolling out the bonus treatment, and control shops' performance converge, suggesting long-term stability of the treatment effect.

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FRIEBEL, Guido, Matthias HEINZ, Miriam KRUEGER, Nick ZUBANOV, 2017. Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain. In: American Economic Review. 107(8), pp. 2168-2203. ISSN 0002-8282. eISSN 1944-7981. Available under: doi: 10.1257/aer.20160788

BibTex

@article{Friebel2017Incen-38097,
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  doi={10.1257/aer.20160788},
  title={Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain},
  number={8},
  volume={107},
  issn={0002-8282},
  journal={American Economic Review},
  pages={2168--2203},
  author={Friebel, Guido and Heinz, Matthias and Krueger, Miriam and Zubanov, Nick}
}

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