Article history: Received 7 March 2006 Available online 19 March 2009 JEL classification: D82 J33 M50

Article history: Received 12 December 2007 Available online 24 December 2008 JEL classification: J33 M52 C93

Infection with Pantoea stewartii subspecies stewartii, which causes jackfruit-bronzing disease, is a huge problem faced by the jackfruit industry in Malaysia. This study was carried out to assess disease ratings and aggressiveness performance of 28 isolated from diseased jackfruits four collection areas (Jenderam Selangor State, Maran Muadzam Shah Pahang Ipoh Perak State) Peninsular Malaysia, i...

We investigate the association between business strategy and firm-level tournament incentives in China find that is associated with positively. further this positive relationship manifests itself local, but not central, state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In addition, we also offer some evidence foreign institutional investors play a moderating role on incentives. Our study fills gap existing liter...

Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice. JEL Classification: M52, J33, M12, L81

a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 December 2017 Received in revised form 2 February 2018 Accepted 2 February 2018 Available online 17 February 2018 JEL classification: C91 D91 J22 J33 L2 M5

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to document the use and the diffusion of the “new” compensation and work organisation practices in Danish private sector firms and second, to examine how and why firms differ regarding the adoption of different schemes. The analysis is based on a detailed mail questionnaire answered by 1,600 Danish private sector firms. JEL Codes: J33, J41, L23

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned “pay-for-percentile” or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed so that some teachers who applied contrac...

This paper provides a brief overview of the theoretical literature on how organisations provide employees with incentives to act in its interest and on the suitability of incentive schemes in different environments. Attention is drawn to areas that are appropriate to public sector organisations. A selection of relevant empirical literature is reviewed and related to the theory. JEL Classificati...