Search Results - subject:"Tournament theory"

Implications of multiple concurrent pay comparisons for top-team turnover

Ridge, Jason W.; Hill, Aaron; Aime, Federico - In: Journal of management : JOM 43 (2017) 3, pp. 671-690

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Incentives in Professional Tennis: Tournament Theory and Intangible Factors

Silverman, Joshua; Seidel, Steven - 2011

tournament theory using a new data set, and also test whether other “intangible factors,” such as firm pride or loyalty, drive …

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La théorie des tournois appliquée aux joueurs de tennis professionnels : peut-on encore parler d'incitations à la performance ?

Barget, Eric; Llorca, Matthieu; Teste, Thierry - In: Revue d'économie politique 121 (2011) 3, pp. 347-370

The purpose of this paper is to apply the tournament theory on professional male tennis players. Two new performance … the tournament theory incentive effect, namely, an undistributed prize structure between tournament levels, increase the …

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Prize Structure and Performance: Evidence from NASCAR

Humphreys, Brad; Frick, Bernd - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011

The predictions that emerge from tournament theory have been tested in a number of sports-related settings. Since … tournament theory using a unique race-level data set from NASCAR. Most of the previous tests of tournament theory using NASCAR … data for 1,114 races over the period 1975-2009. Our results support the predictions of tournament theory: the larger the …

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Using "opposing responses" and relative performance to distinguish empirically among alternative models of promotions

DeVaro, Jed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Applying a simultaneous-equations estimation approach that accounts for both worker and firm behavior, I show that six alternative promotion models can be empirically distinguished to a greater extent than previously thought. I show that classic tournaments, market-based tournaments, and...

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Prize Structure and Performance: Evidence from NASCAR

Frick, Bernd; Humphreys, Brad R. - 2011

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Buying bad behavior : tournament incentives and securities class action lawsuits

Shi, Wei; Connelly, Brian L.; Sanders, Wm. Gerard - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 7, pp. 1354-1378

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Bank performance and executive pay : tournament or teamwork

Yu, Peiyi; Van Luu, Bac - In: Review of quantitative finance and accounting 47 (2016) 3, pp. 607-643

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Designing promotion ladders to mitigate turnover of IT professionals

MacCrory, Frank; Choudhary, Vidyanand; Pinsonneault, Alain - In: Information systems research : ISR 27 (2016) 3, pp. 648-660

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The role of status and leadership style in sales contests : a natural field experiment

Verbeke, Willem J. M. I.; Bagozzi, Richard P.; … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 69 (2016) 10, pp. 4112-4120

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