Motivation Incentives
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CHEN, Tingting
KIM, Tae-Yeol
LIANG, Yongyi
What Really Sparks Employee Creativity?
Creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for creativity can encourage employees to innovate, but their complex relationship has long puzzled researchers. Thanks to HKUST’s Yaping Gong and colleagues, we now know more about how these factors influence each other to generate creativity. Their findings will help organizations motivate and support ... Read More
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Using a Better Incentive Scheme to Motivate the Online Creators to Produce More and Better Content
For many online platforms, motivating a vast number of creators to produce a steady flow of high-quality content is crucial for success. Unlike traditional publishers that rely on professional editors to manage a limited pool of creators, online platforms often use incentive plans to drive productivity. While most platforms adopt a uniform commission (UC) ... Read More
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Monetary Incentives and Knowledge Spillover
To encourage more and higher-quality content, some knowledge platforms have started to pay contributors. It is unclear, however, whether and how such monetary incentives affect users’ contribution to non-paid (“free”) knowledge activities. Answering this question is important because consumers benefit from both paid and non-paid knowledge. We study the ... Read More
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HO, Emily H.
LOEWENSTEIN, George
Is Ignorance Really Bliss? The Perils of Information Avoidance
In the modern world, information is readily available to inform decisions both great—on health, finance, or politics, for example—and small. However, decision-makers are not always eager to take advantage of the information at their fingertips, especially if they fear that it will be painful. Such willful ignorance can have dire consequences for individuals ... Read More
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Choosing Not to Know: The Desire to Avoid Information
Modern technology has brought us unprecedented access to information. We can exchange ideas with people all over the world, monitor the performance of our investment portfolios in real-time, and learn about our risks of developing a variety of medical conditions long before experiencing any symptoms. And yet, many do not avail themselves of this information ... Read More
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