TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mellizo, Philip
AU  - Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
AU  - Matthews, Peter Hans
        TI  - Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management
        PY  - 2017/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10576
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10576
        AB  - We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned to one of two treatments: one in which the manager implements a compensation scheme unilaterally or another in which the manager cedes control over compensation to the workers who vote to implement a scheme. We find that output is between seven and twelve percentage points higher in participatory firms. 
        KW  - real effort
KW  - participatory management
KW  - intrinsic motivation
KW  - control
KW  - voice
KW  - experiment
        ER  -