The paper evaluates and compares the operational performance of ten major airports in Taiwan. The measure of operational performance is based on the relationship between four factors: airport, passengers, airline companies, and fire services. To overcome the restrictions of the small sample...

Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....