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Behavioral Incentives

Behavioral Incentives is an incentive mechanism that links the provision of rewards and/or sanctions contingently to individuals’ observable actions or performance levels in order to shape, motivate, and sustain targeted behavioral patterns.

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744

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Behavioral Incentive Systems

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Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions.

Johannés Siegrist · Journal of Occupational Health Psychology · 1996 · 4.4K citations

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Effects of externally mediated rewards on intrinsic motivation.

Edward L. Deci · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1971 · 4.1K citations · Full text

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Motivating Innovation

Gustavo Manso · The Journal of Finance · 2011 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier · American Economic Review · 2009 · 1.8K citations

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On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B.

S. Kerr · Academy of Management Journal · 1975 · 1.6K citations

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Authors

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  1. AM
    Alyce M. Dickinson

    Western Michigan University, United States

    14 publications · 546 citations

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  2. KG
    Kevin G. Volpp

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    13 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. SN
    Susanne Neckermann

    University of Chicago, United States

    12 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. DA
    David A. Asch

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    12 publications · 1.9K citations

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  5. BS
    Bruno S. Frey

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    11 publications · 677 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    32 h-index

    75 publications

    7.8K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    32 h-index

    190 publications

    19K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    31 h-index

    66 publications

    6.2K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    30 h-index

    53 publications

    5.5K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    30 h-index

    72 publications

    4.8K citations

  6. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    29 h-index

    52 publications

    8K citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    29 h-index

    57 publications

    3.9K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    28 h-index

    64 publications

    5.4K citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 168 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Management Science

    74 publications · 6.5K citations

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  3. American Economic Review

    28 publications · 8.5K citations

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  4. Journal of Marketing Research

    30 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. The Accounting Review

    28 publications · 2.3K citations

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