The phrase "a certain incentive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific motivation or reason for doing something, without specifying what that incentive is.
Example: "The company offered a certain incentive to encourage employees to meet their sales targets."
Alternatives: "a specific motivation" or "a particular encouragement".
Put another way, given the nature of the hierarchy, Mr. Schultz's ambition came with a certain incentive to deal in plunder, the stock in trade of Mr. Tokeley-Parry.
Mobile Crowd Sensing is an emerging paradigm, in which a large number of participants are involved to complete a sensing task under a certain incentive mechanism.
Underselling, especially through incentives and rebates which have been criticized in recent months for eating profits on American car sales–is what seems most to complicate the intentions of car companies, even if General Motors "does plan a certain incentive level even in a business case," according to Tom Kowaleski Tom Kowaleski, executive director of product communications for General Motors.
For example, in writing a book about the economics of the financial crisis and trying to figure out why so many people on Wall Street and elsewhere did things that ultimately blew up in their faces, I relied heavily on the Prisoner's Dilemma, a simple game involving a particular type of Nash equilibrium that shows how certain incentive schemes can promote self-destructive behavior.
Other proposals in play include a property tax cap, an extension of tax breaks for new developments and relief for landlords from a 2009 court decision that said they could not deregulate apartments while also taking advantage of a certain tax incentive.
These measures would include "an extension of tax breaks for new developments and relief for landlords from a 2009 court decision that said they could not deregulate apartments while also taking advantage of a certain tax incentive", reports the Times.
Literature has also addressed the strategic effect of incentives, in particular what the effect of certain incentive structures would be on the behavior of a firm's competitor(s).
The goals had to be met over that time before company executives could receive certain incentive pay awards.
Neighborhood friendships positively predicted willingness to implement buffers and also increased implementation willingness under certain incentive scenarios.
This consideration is inclusive of time-based and performance payments, but excludes certain incentive compensation programs for the personnel of acquired companies, which are estimated not to exceed US$4.0 million over a period of years, in a mix of cash and equity.
They tend to be hyperactive, to walk in perseverative straight paths, and to over-pursue certain incentive stimuli [ 58- 60].
