Timo Vogelsang
timovogelsang.bsky.social
Timo Vogelsang
@timovogelsang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @FrankfurtSchool | Managerial Accounting & Controlling | Field Experiments within Firms | It’s all about incentives…

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Excited to share our latest article for Harvard Business Review 🎉, where we dive into the unintended consequences of bonuses 💰 and how they can sometimes backfire. 📉 hbr.org/2024/09/rese...
#bonuses #incentives #backfiring
Research: When Bonuses Backfire
Why do bonuses sometimes backfire? It’s because each incentive design choice both signals information about your own beliefs and intentions as an employer and shapes the signaling value of employee be...
hbr.org
September 7, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Forthcoming at Management Science: "When Bonuses Backfire: Evidence from the Workplace" (w/ J.Alfitian & D.Sliwka) 🎉

The bonus in our field experiment was designed to reduce 📉 absenteeism. Yet, it eventually increased 📈 absenteeism.

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
November 12, 2023 at 4:57 PM