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When Penalty Fails: Modeling Contractual Misincentives With Evidence From Portugal ITO Agreements
SAGE Open, 2022 A misincentive is characterized as an incentive producing the opposite effect of motivating or preventing some specific action. In some circumstances, contract penalties such as sanctions and fines on late delivery or low-quality software encourage the ...
Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno +4 more
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Invasion of Optimal Social Contracts
Games, 2023 The stag-hunt game is a prototype for social contracts. Adopting a new and better social contract is usually challenging because the current one is already well established and stable due to sanctions imposed on non-conforming members.
Alessandra F. Lütz +3 more
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Contracts Selection Under Quality Uncertainty in Refurbish Decisions
IEEE Access, 2022 With the rapid development of the information technology industry, refurbished products play significant roles in this challenge of environmental, economic, and social performance revolution.
Yang Bai, Wenqi Song, Xingshuai Wang
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Revista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios, 2020 Purpose – This research aims to verify if perceptions of organizational justice in incentive contracts have a positive effect on the congruence between personal and organizational objectives in companies with decentralized structures.
Luciana Klein, Romualdo Douglas Colauto
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Contracting for Nonpoint-Source Pollution Abatement
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1998 This study presents an incentive scheme to control agricultural nonpoint-source pollution. The analysis is based on a principal-agent framework with two parties: farmers and a regulating authority.
Olof Bystrom, Daniel W. Bromley
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Dynamic Multiagent Incentive Contracts: Existence, Uniqueness, and Implementation
Mathematics, 2020 Multiagent incentive contracts are advanced techniques for solving decentralized decision-making problems with asymmetric information. The principal designs contracts aiming to incentivize non-cooperating agents to act in his or her interest.
Qi Luo, Romesh Saigal
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The Optimality of Team Contracts
Games, 2013 This paper analyzes optimal contracts in a linear hidden-action model with normally distributed returns possessing two moments that are governed jointly by two agents who have negative exponential utilities.
Mehmet Barlo, Ayça Özdoğan
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Incentive conflict and supply contracts under carbon cap policy.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Environmental regulations, once promulgated, can cause incentive conflict between manufacturers and suppliers. A manufacturer facing the regulation may undertake choices that can affect his sourcing decisions with the supplier.
Mithu Rani Kuiti +2 more
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Exclusionary Contracts and Incentives to Innovate [PDF]
Games, 2020 This paper develops a game-theoretic model to study how exclusionary contracts affect firms’ incentives to invest in innovation. Several symmetric sellers compete to supply an identical product to a set of buyers, and each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher-quality version of the product.
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Contract Grading: Incentives and Rewards* [PDF]
Image, 1974 Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/98390/1/j.1547-5069.1974.tb01129.x ...
Lindberg, Janice B., Simms, Lillian M.
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