This paper investigates the theoretical and empirical relationships between organisational punishment and productivity. We do so by highlighting the contributions of two academic fields to this topic: management and economics. We underscore the many common theoretical and empirical grounds across management and economics. We heighten, in particular, how motivation and learning theories have contributed to the development of both theoretical and empirical research on this topic. This paper also argues that this debate could be significantly advanced if insights stemming from industrial relations and labour process theory were also considered since these disciplines have traditionally focussed on macro-issues such as how changes in the economic/institutional contexts may affect the likelihood that organisations will resort to punishment. In order to foster future research on this topic, three research themes were developed: a) freedom of choice and the role of contract completeness; b) perception of punishment, monitoring, and productivity; and c) punishment, productivity and exogenous variables.

本文研究了组织惩罚与生产率之间的理论和经验关系。为此，我们着重强调了两个学术领域对该主题的贡献：管理和经济学。我们强调了管理和经济学中许多常见的理论和经验基础。我们尤其要提高动机和学习理论如何促进该主题的理论和实证研究的发展。本文还认为，如果还考虑来自劳资关系和劳动过程理论的见解，则可能会大大推动这场辩论，因为这些学科传统上都侧重于宏观问题，例如经济/制度环境的变化如何影响组织的可能性。将诉诸惩罚。为了促进对该主题的未来研究，开发了三个研究主题：a）选择自由和合同完整性的作用；b）对惩罚，监控和生产力的认识；c）惩罚，生产率和外生变量。