Publisher Summary This chapter reviews some of the major themes that characterize the
quarter century of research on intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. The three major issues …

Management accounting information plays an important role in motivating individuals to
improve performance (cf., Atkinson, Banker, Kaplan, and Young 1997). This role tends to be …

The purpose of the present research was to develop and validate a situational (or state)
measure of motivation, the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS). The SIMS is designed to …

The deterrence hypothesis predicts that the introduction of a penalty that leaves everything
else unchanged will reduce the occurrence of the behavior subject to the fine. We present …

Economists usually assume that monetary incentives improve performance, and
psychologists claim that the opposite may happen. We present and discuss a set of …

Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial
when tacit knowledge in and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms …

In understanding human behavior, psychologists have long been interested in what
motivates specific actions. Debates have pitted extrinsic motivators (eg rewards/punishment) …

Two decades of cognitive research have shown writing to be a highly fluid process of
problem solving requiring constant monitoring of progress toward task goals. Becoming an …

Publisher Summary Self-determination theory (SDT) assumes that humans have inherent
propensities to be intrinsically motivated, to assimilate their social and physical worlds, to …

The purposes of this study were to examine (a) the effect of an observation-feedback
intervention on the rate of a teacher's behavior-specific praise of students with emotional …