Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

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Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tinbergen Institute, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (CESifo), 81679 München, Germany; and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Arjan Non
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Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), 68161 Mannheim, Germany

Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tinbergen Institute, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (CESifo), 81679 München, Germany; and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 53113 Bonn, Germany

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Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), 68161 Mannheim, German; Tinbergen Institute, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Published Online:9 Feb 2016https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2291

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November 2016

Pages iv–vi, 3085-3391

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Received:May 30, 2013
Accepted:March 09, 2015
Published Online:February 09, 2016

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Christiane Bradler, Robert Dur, Susanne Neckermann, Arjan Non (2016) Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment. Management Science 62(11):3085-3099.

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