Adverse effects of control? Evidence from a field experiment
IF 1.7
3区 经济学
Q2 ECONOMICS
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Abstract
We conduct a field experiment with Amazon Mechanical Turk (“AMT”) workers to causally assess the effect of introducing a control mechanism in an existing work relationship on workers’ performance on tasks of varying difficulty. We find that introducing control significantly reduces performance. This reduction occurs primarily on challenging tasks, while performance on simple tasks is unaffected. The negative effects are primarily driven by workers who exhibit non-pecuniary motivation in the absence of control. Our results show that there are adverse effects of control, and they suggest that these adverse effects are of particular concern to firms that rely on high performance on challenging tasks.
控制的不利影响？来自实地实验的证据
我们以亚马逊机械土耳其人（Amazon Mechanical Turk，简称 "AMT"）工人为对象进行了一次现场实验，以评估在现有工作关系中引入控制机制对工人完成不同难度任务的绩效的影响。我们发现，引入控制机制会大大降低工作绩效。这种降低主要发生在具有挑战性的任务上，而简单任务的绩效则不受影响。产生负面影响的主要原因是工人在没有控制的情况下表现出了非金钱动机。我们的研究结果表明，控制会产生不利影响，而且这些不利影响对那些依赖高绩效完成挑战性任务的公司尤为重要。
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来源期刊
Experimental Economics
ECONOMICS-
CiteScore
4.10
自引率
8.70%
发文量
40
期刊介绍：
Experimental methods are uniquely suited to the study of many phenomena that have been difficult to observe directly in naturally occurring economic contexts. For example, the ability to induce preferences and control information structures makes it possible to isolate the effects of alternate economic structures, policies, and market institutions.Experimental Economics is an international journal that serves the growing group of economists around the world who use experimental methods. The journal invites high-quality papers in any area of experimental research in economics and related fields (i.e. accounting, finance, political science, and the psychology of decision making). State-of-the-art theoretical work and econometric work that is motivated by experimental data is also encouraged. The journal will also consider articles with a primary focus on methodology or replication of controversial findings. We welcome experiments conducted in either the laboratory or in the field. The relevant data can be decisions or non-choice data such as physiological measurements. However, we only consider studies that do not employ deception of participants and in which participants are incentivized. Experimental Economics is structured to promote experimental economics by bringing together innovative research that meets professional standards of experimental method, but without editorial bias towards specific orientations. All papers will be reviewed through the standard, anonymous-referee procedure and all accepted manuscripts will be subject to the approval of two editors. Authors must submit the instructions that participants in their study received at the time of submission of their manuscript. Authors are expected to submit separate data appendices which will be attached to the journal''s web page upon publication. Officially cited as: Exp Econ
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