... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Performance funding Unintended consequences Dysfunctionality Incentives Intentions and actions Public sector Performance measurement has become widespread in the public sector as an instrument to increase accountability (Van...

...Wim A. Van der Stede This study examines how two important situational factors (corporate diversification and business unit strategy) and two elements of a firm’s administrative system (accounting‐based budgetary controls and associated incentives) affect the presence of slack in business unit...

...Mohamed E. Abul‐Ezz; John W. Dickhaut Examines, in a laboratory experiment, the effect of reward interdependence and budget difficulty, as components of incentive structure, on characteristics of group performance expectations. Demonstrates that differential reward interdependence allows groups...