{"title":"Productivity effects of shared peer effort and relative performance information","authors":"Dimitri Yatsenko","doi":"10.1016/j.mar.2021.100779","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using an experiment in which workers’ pay depends solely on their performance (output), I examine the interactive effects of sharing peers’ effort duration (time spent on task) and output-based relative performance information (RPI) on productivity (performance per unit of time spent). I predict and find a positive effect of sharing peers’ effort duration on productivity, and a moderation of this by RPI, such that the positive effect of sharing peers’ effort duration on productivity is weaker in a setting with RPI compared to a setting without RPI. These results extend prior research on management control by identifying the substitutive effect of two widespread features of the management control environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51429,"journal":{"name":"Management Accounting Research","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100779"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Management Accounting Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1044500521000536","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using an experiment in which workers’ pay depends solely on their performance (output), I examine the interactive effects of sharing peers’ effort duration (time spent on task) and output-based relative performance information (RPI) on productivity (performance per unit of time spent). I predict and find a positive effect of sharing peers’ effort duration on productivity, and a moderation of this by RPI, such that the positive effect of sharing peers’ effort duration on productivity is weaker in a setting with RPI compared to a setting without RPI. These results extend prior research on management control by identifying the substitutive effect of two widespread features of the management control environment.
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Management Accounting Research aims to serve as a vehicle for publishing original research in the field of management accounting. Its contributions include case studies, field work, and other empirical research, analytical modelling, scholarly papers, distinguished review articles, comments, and notes. It provides an international forum for the dissemination of research, with papers written by prestigious international authors discussing and analysing management accounting in many different parts of the world.