Title: The determinants of team rewards in entrepreneurial firms

Authors: David B. Balkin, Gideon D. Markman

Addresses: College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado, Campus Box 419, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Abstract: Using contingency theory, this study examines factors that determine the presence of team rewards in a sample of 130 entrepreneurial firms (average annual sales of $30 million in 1995). As hypothesised, the growth stage of the organisational life cycle and high time commitment teams were positively related to the use of team rewards, but self-managed teams were not. A high commitment team was defined as one where the employee worked on the team on a full-time basis and with a long-term duration. The data also suggest that high time commitment teams were related to monetary rewards and low time commitment teams to non-monetary rewards.

Keywords: teams; team rewards; pay incentives; entrepreneurship; organisational life cycles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEIM.2001.000452

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2001 Vol.1 No.2, pp.178-193

Published online: 16 Jul 2003 *

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