Subjective performance evaluation could induce influence activities: employees might
devote too much effort to pleasing their evaluator, relative to working toward the goals of the …

Purpose This study aims to assess the effect of peer evaluations on team-level effort,
productivity, motivation and overall team performance. Design/methodology/approach This …

Given the level of outsourcing, supplier performance evaluation (SPE) is a critical supply
chain process. SPEs are used to record supplier performance levels to inform future supplier …

We study the role of communication in repeated games with private monitoring. We first
show that without communication, the set of Nash equilibrium payoffs in such games is a …

What is the most efficient way of designing incentives in an organization? Over the past five
decades, agency theory has provided various answers to this crucial question. This line of …

We study information flows in an organization with a top management (principal) and
multiple subunits (agents) with private information that determines the organization's overall …

We explore subjective performance reviews in long-term employment relationships. We
show that firms benefit from separating the task of evaluating the worker from the task of …

When offering incentive schemes to low‐ranking officials, a tension exists between the dual
goals of enforcing regulations and preventing corruption. Recent efforts to curb abuses have …

In this paper we analyze a principal's optimal monitoring strategies in a team environment. In
doing so we study the interaction between formal monitoring and informal (peer) monitoring …

This article studies moral hazard in teams where workers' wages depend on two types of
performance measures: objective team output and subjective evaluations. The evaluations …