The overall research question addresses the effectiveness of incentive mechanisms in poli -cies that enhance private forest owners’ biodiversity protection. In particular, paper focuses on link between motivations, incentives, and institutions, questions incentives current protection policies. Our hypothesis is purely monetary nature can cause a “crowding out effect”, i.e., owners may reduce th...

This paper experimentally examines image motivation—the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others—as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image motivation. By definition, image depends on one’s behavior being visible to other people. Using this unique p...

The authors evaluated mechanistic and metacognitive accounts of age differences in strategy transitions during skill acquisition. Old and young participants were trained on a task involving a shift from performing a novel arithmetic algorithm to responding via associative recognition of equation-solution pairings. The strategy shift was manipulated by task instructions that either (a) equally f...

The benefits of open and cooperative systems, popular because of the functionality they offer for sharing resources free of charge, are only achievable if there is an incentive to cooperate, and if participants are able to make effective decisions about the cooperations in which they participate. In this context, the key contribution of this paper is a framework for non-monetary cooperations am...

BACKGROUND Low survey response rates in general practice are common and lead to loss of power, selection bias, unexpected budgetary constraints and time delays in research projects. METHODS OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of recruitment strategies aimed at increasing survey response rates among GPs. DESIGN Systematic review. SEARCH METHODS MEDLINE (OVIDSP, 1948-2012), EMBASE (OVI...

Corporations are increasingly under pressure to improve their environmental performance and to account for potential risks and opportunities associated with climate change. In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of monetary and nonmonetary incentives provided by companies to their employees in order to reduce carbon emissions. Specifically, we find evidence that the use of monetary incenti...

Purpose Opinion leaders are increasingly important as a source of information, with consumers judging them to be more credible than other media and influential consumers. Thus, companies have an interest in engaging opinion post about products brands, the authors analyse different incentives for encouraging spread word on social (via electronic word-of-mouth [e-WoM]). Design/methodology/approac...

Every experienced executive knows the importance of rewarding good performance and also how difficult it is to design an incentive system that works as it is supposed to. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal1 reported that Hewitt Associates found that 83 per cent of companies with a pay-for-performance system said that their incentive plan was “only somewhat successful or not working at ...

Knowledge sharing is an important activity in virtual communities (VC). Recently, some researchers have explored various motivators that may influence VC members' contribution. Although providing rewards has been found to significantly motivate employees to share knowledge in organizational research, it also has been found to diminish intrinsic motivation and lead to reduced efforts in in some ...