In late 2018, the Journal of Operations Management published an invited methods article by
Lonati et al.(2018) to provide guidance to authors on how to design behavioral experiments …

Innovation research has developed a broad set of methodological approaches in recent
decades. In this paper, we propose laboratory experiments as a fruitful methodological …

Society makes substantial investments in biomedical research, searching for ways to better
human health. The product of this research is principally information published in scientific …

Creativity is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon with tremendous economic
importance. A crucial question for economists and for firms is the interplay of incentives and …

This paper studies differences in the effect of temperature on cognitive performance by
gender in a large controlled lab experiment (N= 543). We study performance in math, verbal …

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication
media on creative performance in a collaborative task that is highly visual. While group …

Incentives are effective at enhancing productivity, but research also suggests that
performance incentives can have “unintended negative consequences” including increases …

In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or
hinder innovation by means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like …

In order to change employee behaviour, companies frequently turn to forms of performance-
related pay (PRP). At the same time, there is a clear imperative to encourage employee …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment that compared the
impacts of a performance bonus and a wage gift on output from a creative task and a simple …