Incentives for creativity |
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Authors: | Sanjiv Erat Uri Gneezy |
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Institution: | 1.Rady School of Management,University of California,San Diego,USA;2.CREED,University of Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Netherlands |
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Abstract: | We investigate whether piece-rate and competitive incentives affect creativity, and if so, how the incentive effect depends on the form of the incentives. We find that while both piece-rate and competitive incentives lead to greater effort relative to a base-line with no incentives, neither type of incentives improve creativity relative to the base-line. More interestingly, we find that competitive incentives are in fact counter-productive in that they reduce creativity relative to base-line condition. In line with previous literature, we find that competitive conditions affect men and women differently: whereas women perform worse under competition than the base-line condition, men do not. |
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