The Impact of Relative Performance Information on Employees’ Persistence in Voluntary Training

The authors thank Jan Bouwens (department editor), an anonymous associate editor, two anonymous reviewers, Matthias Mahlendorf, Maximilian Margolin, Ivo Tafkov, Elien Voermans, and Timo Vogelsang, as well as research workshop participants at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, INSEAD, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, and the University of Gent, and conference participants at the Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR) 2024, European Network for Experimental Research Conference 2024, and Swiss Winter Accounting Conference 2024 for helpful comments. The authors are grateful for the assistance of the company. No funding was received from the company. The experiment was approved by the workers’ council of the company and the ethics committee of Ulm University.